Accountability Quotes

There is no accountability in soft money. None.

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light.

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.

We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people in the press, just as there should be in any other industry where things go wrong. But let's not try and think it is for politicians or governments to tell people what they stick in newspapers. That is deeply illiberal.

I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.

At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land.

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

It's time for these people to have accountability for what is being done.

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.

If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.

You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.

Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.

We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

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

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.

I'll continue to fight for school choice and home schooling. Do I believe in accountability? You bet I do.

Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.

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

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.

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency.