Quotes on Accountability

The Federal Reserve, like other central banks, wields powerful tools; democratic accountability requires that the public be able to see how and for what purposes those tools are being used.

We keep calling for accountability and reinvestment and a push for all of us to imagine a world where black people are not policed but instead supported and loved and cared for. Where our families can feel safe and inspired and protected.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement can encourage the wrong kinds of distance, and if the nationalism we see sparking up around the globe arises from too narrow and fixed a sense of loyalty, the internationalism that's coming to birth may reflect too roaming and undefined a sense of belonging.

Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

The twin sister to autonomy and freedom is responsibility and accountability. You cannot have one with out the other. If someone is given an area of responsibility, not only must they be set free to do it, they must also be held accountable for what they do. Accountability clarifies freedom. In the teams and companies where you see boundary confusion, power struggles, control, over-reaching of one's line of responsibility, you will also see lapses in accountability as well.

Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.

The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.

We have to work together in order to prove that genocidal campaigns will fail and lead to accountability of the perpetrators and bring justice for survivors.

I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.