Accountability Quotes - Page 18

• You would not let your kids do whatever they want. So the challenge is to create accountability in a non-mechanistic way. You cannot come in with a clipboard and check off boxes and figure out why something has not been done on schedule.

  John Kao

  Kids, Challenges, Done

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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

  Campbell Newman

  Political, Lines, Want

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• People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

  Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  People, Expectations, Competition

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• The heartbreak of runaway corruption, abuse of power and indefensible criminality by our government and media should, must inspire all good we-the-people Americans to wake the hell up from the embarrassing curse of apathy and start demanding constitutional accountability from our elected employees. How radically non-sheep of me.

  Ted Nugent

  Heart, Media, Sheep

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Surprisingly, it's forgiveness, not guilt, that increases accountability. Researchers have found that taking a self-compassionate point of view on a personal failure makes people more likely to take personal responsibility for the failure than when they take a self-critical point of view. They also are more willing to receive feedback and advice from others, and more likely to learn from the experience.

  David D. Burns

  Responsibility, Self, Views

  Source: time.com

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• Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.

  Herbert Schiller

  Mean, Deregulation, Reducing

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• The challenge of course is in sobriety and that's been the blessing, to realize, to take accountability for the ways that your own thinking impacts your happiness, and your serenity, and your ability to be a productive and a loving, giving member of your family and society.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Blessing, Thinking, Impact

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• The thing to keep in mind is that the answer to the question I often get - Are leaders born or made? - is an emphatic yes! All leaders are born, and all are made, through devoted practice of reflecting on experience to learn what's worked and what hasn't, good coaching and accountability pressure to grow, good luck, and, of course, some talent.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Good Luck, Leader, Coaching

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• Confidence is not just in people's heads; it comes from the culture of the organization. It's easier to expect success when working in an organization that has a culture of accountability, collaboration, and initiative. Without this, it's easier - and more self-protective - to assume failure so the person is not disappointed and instead pleasantly surprised.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Collaboration, Culture, Assuming

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.

  Ann Kirkpatrick

  Country, Men, Empowering

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• The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no possibility of Nuremberg [war crime trials], we're doomed to have it repeated.

  Haskell Wexler

  War, Media, Ideas

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• In the past when money was given from government to government, there was no accountability, especially the World Bank loans. Nobody was held accountable for the misuse of World Bank loans. That is why it is important to channel some of the money through civil society groups.

  George W. Bush

  Past, Important, World

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• The special harm attaching to prior restraint is that the government can keep materials from reaching the public, so there can be no accountability, no judgment by the people that the power to suppress was wrongly exercised.

  Randal Marlin

  Government, People, Special

  Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.219, Broadview Press

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• The biggest single problem of American parents today is the foolish idea that you just have to be a friend to your children. Kids need parents, not just another pal. This means being able and willing to say no, to challenge faulty thinking, and to expect accountability.

  Steve Biddulph

  Children, Mean, Kids

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• If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.

  Robert Anthony

  People, Ifs

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• Hold us accountable. There's no accountability in Washington. Drain the swamp.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Swamps, Drains

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

  Carly Fiorina

  Government, Ineptitude, Incompetence

  "The Fix 5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Why is it that we all - myself included - believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the TSA is a bunch of jack-booted thugs, officious and arbitrary and drunk with power? It's because everything seems so arbitrary, because there's no accountability or transparency in the DHS.

  Bruce Schneier

  Believe, Thug, Tsa

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• There is no effort to acknowledge some equivalent accountability by associating "terrorism" with all violence that is deliberately aimed at civilians, either directly or as foreseeable effects of violent acts, whether the actor is a non-state individual or group or the state.

  Richard A. Falk

  Violent Acts, Effort, Groups

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If you look at countries that are comparable, like Switzerland or Germany, for example, they have mixed systems. They don't have just a single-payer system, but they have very clear controls over budgeting and accountability.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Switzerland, Example

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.

  Ross Perot

  Teacher, Teaching, School

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• I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.

  John Mayer

  Deserve

  "John Mayer: Taylor Swift’s ‘Dear John’ Song ‘Humiliated Me’". www.rollingstone.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

  Robert Townsend

  Business, Mistake, Two

  Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

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• American special relationships with Israel and Saudi Arabia blind us to their dreadful encroachments on human rights, as well as confer impunity on their leaders with respect to accountability for crimes against humanity.

  Richard A. Falk

  Rights, Israel, Leader

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Creating a high-functioning education system requires all the strategies involved in building high-functioning organisations anywhere. It requires a deliberate and aggressive strategy to ensure extraordinary talent at every level of the system, from the superintendentcy to district offices to principalships to classrooms. It requires building systems for accountability; offering parents the ability to choose their public schools is the ultimate form of this. It requires building a strong culture at the system and school levels based on high expectations for student achievement.

  Wendy Kopp

  Strong, School, Creating

  Source: www.economist.com

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