Quotes About Accountability

The job of elected officials is to answer to the people who sent them to Washington - not to scorn them, not to demean them, not to mock them, and not to sell their jobs and dreams to the highest bidder.

The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.

People should hold elected officials accountable for how they vote. Period.

In many respects, you can argue Dodd-Frank isn't even law. It's a license for unaccountable, un-elected officials to make law.

One of the reasons the American public holds unelected government officials in such low esteem is that they are never held accountable for their failures.

Traditionally, in America, we have accountability as kind of a key feature of each branch of government in some way. So, you know, you obviously have to run for office. Or if you're a judge, you've got to be nominated by political officials and so on.

Listening is something as elected officials, as leaders, we forget to do.

Don't engage with corrupt officials under any circumstances. The results are always bad.

We are one of only two FTSE 100 companies which do not use offshore or other tax avoidance arrangements. In fact, we are probably one of the highest taxpaying companies in the index.

I have to be a leader now. I need to shoulder responsibility more than I used to. It's changed me, but I'm OK with that.

When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?

I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did okay.

In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.

My grandma was so old-fashioned. She thought we were supposed to have homework every night. I would come home, and she would be like, 'Where's your homework?' and I'd be like, 'I don't have none.' She'd be like, 'I'ma call your teacher.'

I believe when you go out there, you have a responsibility to deliver. I have old-fashioned thinking when I'm out there.

We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.

I blame my grandfather 100 percent for his oldest son's death. I don't think there's any ambiguity there.

I came back from the Olympic Games, and straightaway, I'm this role model. So that means I can't mess around with my mates like I used to because, if I do, people are going to use it to knock me down.

Leaders are important but not omnipotent.

I understand that every day I have to be a leader on and off the court.

It was not me failing that I was scared of. It was failing those people back home who believe in you. They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games.

Once a year I will clean my room, just because I feel I should.

But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?

One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid there that have not been effective.