Accountability Quotes - Page 13

• I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

  John Thune

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thinking

  "Sen. John Thune on Legislation to Block Bailout of State Pension Plans". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. February 9, 2011.

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• We will have to become 'perpetual marketers', to learn to be channel and data planners without losing our human insight or creativity; to vastly increase the level of accountability and provide more relevant experiences for customers.

  John Woodward

  Business, Creativity, Data

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• What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close cooperation with powerful states that intervene massively in the domestic economy and international society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Exercise, Political

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.784, AK Press

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• The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world's poorest people.

  John Ricard

  Country, Health Education, Poverty Reduction

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• So what am I willing to do? Do my work heartily, unto the Lord. There is no higher accountability in life than to do something for God. So that's kind of how I operate.

  Mark Richt

  Kind, Lord, Higher

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• Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

  David Brin

  Errors, Criticism, Antidote

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• When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Mean, Surveillance, Standardization

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• This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions.

  Philip Alston

  United States, Air Power, Damage

  "U.N. report faults prolific use of drone strikes by U.S." by David S. Cloud, articles.latimes.com. June 3, 2010.

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• Secrecy destroys accountability.

  Ralph Nader

  Political, Secrecy

  Ralph Nader (2014). “Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State”, p.65, Nation Books

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• Who has not first tried to get out of a tough situation before truly dealing with it?

  Mary O'Neill

  Firsts, Tough, Situation

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• I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. I want to make sure there is no discrepancy between what we say and what we do. If you preach accountability and then promote somebody with bad results, it doesn't work. I personally believe the best training is management by example. Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Leadership, Believe, Thinking

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• There’s no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It’s always someone else’s fault. Usually people just blame the victim.

  Meg Cabot

  People, Faults, Blame

  Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.110, Pan Macmillan

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• Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no one would have dreamed of considering political leaders anyone's servants. The job of the leader was to lead. But Christ invented the notion that the way to lead is by serving the needs of others, especially those who are the most needy.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Jobs, Rome, Leader

  Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great about Christianity”, Tyndale House Pub

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• I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Hard Work, Self, Hard

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• Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

  Paul Tillich

  Destiny, Men

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control.

  Dan Brown

  Faith, Believe, Simple

  "Angels and Demons". Book by Dan Brown, 2000.

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• The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hunting, Blame, Scapegoat

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• If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness," unaccompanied by a sense of moral accountability. We shall never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the fundamental principles of morality.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sacrifice, Practice, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Escaping, Order, Silence

  Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.8, Basic Books

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• [Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

  Michael Pollan

  Government, Vices, Regulation

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• I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Fall, Responsibility, Way

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• People who carry in their hearts a strong conviction concerning the living reality of the Almighty and their accountability to Him for what they do with their lives are far less likely to become enmeshed in problems that inevitably weaken society.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Strong, Heart, Reality

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.21, Harmony

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• 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.

  Pico Iyer

  Loyalty, Distance, Mean

  Pico Iyer (2011). “The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home”, p.37, Vintage

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• To be a tourist is to escape accountability.

  Don DeLillo

  Tourists

  Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.43, Vintage

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• Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the case. People such as myself who attempt to bring openness and accountability to the system are pursued, suspended and dismissed.

  Marta Andreasen

  Taken, Opportunity, People

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