Quotes About Accountability

With great power comes great responsibilty.

Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.

Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

You've got to take responsibility and to do everything in your power to get results. Hopefully players look at that and try and follow it.

Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity.

Measure a person by what they do with power.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

There ought to be one day — just one — when there is open season on senators.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.