#accountability

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #accountability




While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.


Ruben Hinojosa


#administration #believe #commend #commitment #focus

The taxpayers deserve accountability.


Byron Dorgan


#deserve #taxpayers

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.


William P. Leahy


#again #also #comes #focused #happen

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.


Rachel Maddow


#accountability #basis #being #being done #done

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.


Jim Nussle


#accountability #actually #certainly #government #know

I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance.


Jane Siberry


#actions #affect #anymore #australia #blame

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.


Robert A. Heinlein


#leadership #politics #leadership

Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance.


Shana McDonald


#national-security #patriotism #whistleblowers #courage

Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted with excuses, blame, and counter-blame. But sense is made of the world only through relationship between action and reaction, symptom and cause. No change is possible without analysis of accountability.


Antonella Gambotto-Burke


#action #analysis #blame #cause #counter-blame

If you aren't diligently working towards changing something that bothers you, you rescind your right to complain about it.


Rob Liano


#complaint #personal-development #personal-growth #change