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Quotes About Accountability

The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.
~ Amy Chua
Blame is a choice that doesn't give you directions out of hell.
~ Shannon L. Alder
I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.
~ Ferdinand Marcos
The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed
~ Anita Roddick
Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.
~ David Cameron
You entrust your money to banks, God entrusts His money to you. How would you feel if the bank took your money and used it to play the lottery or gamble with it? So, how does God feel?
~ Tony Evans
No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.
~ Warren Buffett
Donors need to know what their money is being used for.
~ Michel Martelly
Whether it's foreign money or hiding emails, these stories are creating a narrative about Hillary Clinton trying to be above everyone else and operating under her own set of rules.
~ Dana Perino
As soon as you take responsibility for your life, you can change the world.
~ Tom Basso
We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.
~ Ronald Reagan
A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.
~ Abraham Verghese
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.
~ Milton Friedman
In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.
~ Gertrude Stein
I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.
~ Barack Obama
We are the administrators of our money. We will have to give God an account of the use we make of it up to the last cent.
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
We will only do with your money what we would do with our own.
~ Warren Buffett
There is no accountability in soft money. None.
~ Zach Wamp
If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.
~ John Ralston Saul
People who lose money always need someone to blame.
~ James Chanos
... some day you will have to give an account for every penny you spent.
~ Billy Graham
I'm a firm believer in putting your money where your mouth is.
~ Teri Hatcher
We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
~ Carly Fiorina