Quotes About Accountability

What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you

In the course of my life I have developed five little democratic questions. If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?" If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.

As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my village... But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action.

Maybe answers are found not in observing but in doing. Doing the right thing" -Eva Nine

Our wives are like mirrors, reflecting back to us what kinds of husbands we are.

How do you build trust? Through relationships, good decision making, consistency, and leadership.

The first key shift is to stop evaluating performance by the number of hours employees put in and instead measure it by the value they produce. That means not just permitting intermittent renewal but actively encouraging it as a key to sustainable high performance. It also means treating employees like adults by giving them freedom to decide how best to get their work done and holding them accountable for their results, not the hours they work.

That's the worst thing about grownups, I think – they can never admit that just once in their lives they've acted wrongly or irresponsibly. They're so quick to judge others, but they never hold Judgement Day for themselves.

you can't depend on people who just let things happen

The promises made by a guilty conscience acknowledge and settle no debts...

Å, Anna Aemelin, det eneste du bryr deg om, er din egen samvittighet, det er den du pleier.

Even potted plants got to be a responsibility, like everything else you took care of that couldn't make decisions for itself.

the things we don't deal with always come back. There's no escape

I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.

I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.

Particular stories call us to accountability," feminist social ethicist Sharon Welch explains.50

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. ECCLESIASTES 12:14

Following that declaration, you would make whatever bold promises are suggested to you by the imperative of your declaration.

Dreams aren't deferred. They don't just get deferred, either. Someone defers them. You defer them. You make a choice and put off something you dream of doing. "A dream deferred" is a copout, an escape from blame.

It would be years before it was operating the way a proper city should - which is to say, messily, but more or less freely and honestly, with its citizens accountable to one another and to those they've chosen to represent them, rather than to entities, spectral or otherwise, whose own interests are not in the interest of the people.

The power itself comes from the fact that you can do something and people can't see you do it and what kind of responsibility do you have when you can do it. What kind of good things can you do or can you do good things from being invisible in this way?

One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.