Accountability Transparency Quotes

#1. We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years

Gwen Ifill

#2. The real power and test of our ministry (calling) is not in the pulpit or public arena, but in our private lives, our home.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#3. some secrets kept themselves, out of a failure to stand up to the competing rumors. She

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. 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.

Melissa Bean

#5. The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.

Simon Mainwaring

#6. If high-tech companies are serious about doing the right thing, they can join together and lobby for more transparency and accountability in the way in which Chinese officialdom deals with Internet services.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#7. Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.

Jack W. Hayford

#8. We believe strongly in transparency and accountability, which is why Teach For America encourages rigorous independent evaluations of our program. Our mission is too important to operate in any other way.

Wendy Kopp

#9. I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

John Thune

#10. Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.

Mike Quigley

#11. I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

T Bone Burnett

#12. Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.

Gautama Buddha

#13. Fostering transparency and accountability at the Federal Reserve was one of my principal objectives when I became Chairman in February 2006.

Ben Bernanke

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

Nancy Pelosi

#15. In the absence of fear, there can be no courage.

Len Smith

#16. My greatest happiness is to be before the Blessed Sacrament, where my heart is, as it were, in Its center.

Margaret Mary Alacoque

#17. We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.

Hillary Clinton

#18. We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.

Mike Quigley

#19. When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals' Medicare reimbursement on patient satisfaction survey scores, they likely figured that transparency and accountability would improve healthcare.

Alexandra Robbins

#20. My kind of fun just doesn't include making fun of vertically challanged people

Courtney Allison Moulton

#21. Your accord and harmonious love is a hymn to Jesus Christ ... in perfect harmony, and taking your pitch from God, you may sing in unison and in one voice to the Father through Jesus Christ.

Ignatius Of Antioch

#22. In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!

Erica Jong

#23. Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

Alexander Stille

#24. Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#25. Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.

Pete Hegseth

#26. 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

#27. Never let the details take over the story; let the story dictate what details to use.

Krista D. Ball

#28. 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.

Michelle Malkin

#29. Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship.

Mike Paul

#30. The movement towards radical transparency and accountability has been gaining steam for several decades.

Heather Brooke

#31. I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

Mike Quigley

#32. Christians are those who let God clothe them with goodness and mercy, with Christ, so as to become, like Christ, servants of God and others.

Pope Francis

#33. We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

Carly Fiorina

#34. Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to court the consumer, and even the bluest chips woo organisations such as Greenpeace and Amnesty.

Noreena Hertz

#35. 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

#36. Ireland's just a place ... people go there all the time.

Crispin Glover

#37. 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.

Lee H. Hamilton

#38. We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.

Paul Simon