Top 100 Be Accountable Quotes
#1. I think we should all be accountable to our parties, but I also think that accountability should be a process of engagement: that MPs do engage with their constituency parties, do engage with their constituents, and MPs do change their minds on things because of local opinion.
Jeremy Corbyn
#2. People should be concerned about installing a more sensible, responsible government. What we [the burmese] need is a government that is accountable and transparent, so that the people know what it is doing and can judge for themselves whether or not they like what is being done.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#3. Although the realization of values in a culture may seem on the surface to be concerned merely with the temporal and material, this is appearance only, for man is a spiritual being destined for eternity, exhaustively accountable to his Creator-Lord.
Henry R. Van Til
#4. This is a difference between being a governor and being in a legislature. Because when something doesn't work in New Jersey, they look at me, say: "Why didn't it get done? Why didn't you do it?" You have to be responsible and accountable.
Chris Christie
#5. To incessantly blame others for my shortcomings is cowardice borne of fear, fed by fear, and haunted by fear. To be steadfastly accountable for my shortcomings is bravery borne of God, fed by God, and blessed by God.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#6. What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible.
Michael Howard
#7. Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.
John Tyler
#8. I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
Zachary Quinto
#9. We would like to see new leaders come forward who would be accountable and responsible, who would succeed in ending the terror and the violence. And it is up to the Palestinian people to judge who those new leaders should be.
Colin Powell
#10. Our ethics and systems of justice, our entire moral order, are founded on the notion of society as a collective of individual selves-- autonomous, introspective, accountable agents. If this self-reflective, moral agent is revealed to be illusory, what then?
Paul Broks
#11. 69The righteous are not in any way held accountable for the wrongdoers; their only duty is to remind them, so that they may be mindful of God.
Anonymous
#12. I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.
George Washington
#13. I hope that people will be held accountable, even if accountability just means naming it and letting the citizens of the country know where you're at. I think that has a huge impact on the way people think.
Christy Clark
#14. Learn from me, for as I teach, I learn from you as well! Always be accountable to yourself and take complete responsibility for your own life. No one can do as much for you, as you can do for yourself ...
James A. Murphy
#15. But they've [my children] made me better. They hold me more accountable for who I am and who I aspire to be, and they make me want to be better. And that's not just as a mommy, but as a woman and as an athlete.
Kerri Walsh
#16. The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable.
Helen Thomas
#17. If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of the Chinese people, not due to the inexorable workings of any particular technology.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#18. The evidence is there and it is clear. We want the people to be held accountable. Everybody who played a role in the death of Martin Anderson, we want them to be held accountable.
Benjamin Crump
#19. A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
Samuel Richardson
#20. In the Narcisstic parent's eyes, they do no wrong nor do they feel they should be held accountable for the bad and wrong things that they have done.
Katherine Childress
#21. We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.
Helen Thomas
#22. It's up to you to make the conscious choices that bring about a better future. Find new methods to deal with old routines. You have to take charge of your life, to be accountable to yourself and responsible toward others.
Lynn C. Tolson
#23. Meisner technique was different than anything I'd ever experienced. It's a really great way to be accountable to your craft and to yourself, but also it takes that kind of focus and dedication to learn anything.
Mariska Hargitay
#24. I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on.
Alice Walker
#25. Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#26. Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.
Barbara Boxer
#27. In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.
Maya Angelou
#28. The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.
Diane Ravitch
#29. During the past five years, I've learned that time flies faster than you think, and because you only live once you have to learn from your mistakes, live your dreams and be accountable.
Lindsay Lohan
#30. A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.
Ian Macfarlane
#31. When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
Bill Bradley
#33. I think that the thing you have to do is, people have to start being held accountable for their decisions. If somebody's not buying insurance, then they're going to have to be selling their car, or whatever it is to try to help cover that.
Todd Akin
#34. Elect us, hold us accountable, and make a judgment and then go from there. But I do tell you that if the Democrats win, and have substantial majorities, the Congress of the United States will be more bipartisan.
Nancy Pelosi
#35. My dad has ingrained that in me: 'Be accountable.'
Jon Lester
#36. Is it impossible to believe that I think a day will come where I'll be held accountable for each life I've taken, every drop of blood I've spilled . . . and yet I continue to do whatever is necessary to keep my people?
Jeaniene Frost
#37. If we want unity, we must all be unifiers. If we want accountability, each of us must be accountable for all we do.
Christine Gregoire
#38. If we add state capitalism to the Bush administration's success in eroding both the US Constitution and the power of Congress, we may be witnessing the final death of accountable constitutional government.
Paul Craig Roberts
#39. I am not saying people shouldn't be held accountable for terrible acts. But holding people in prisons does not necessarily make them responsible or accountable. It makes them bad. It makes them evil. It puts an end to any process of transformation. It hardens them spiritually and psychologically.
Eve Ensler
#40. But at some point, a full-grown woman has to be accountable for her own self, and for the choices she's made.
Cherie Priest
#41. Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
Arundhati Roy
#42. And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.
Erskine Bowles
#43. Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks that are not only too big to fail, but too big to be held accountable.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
#44. I'm not saying people should not be held accountable for their hurtful behavior. But the only thing blaming does is to keep the focus off you. It means you aren't dealing with your problems.
Art E. Berg
#45. Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which
Men are and ought to be accountable,
If not to Thee, to those they influence.
Philip James Bailey
#46. Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.
James L. Buckley
#47. Transnational Corporations must be legally accountable for the negative human rights impacts of their activities.
Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
#48. And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country.
Robert McChesney
#49. The present is swollen with self-regard for itself, but soon enough the present becomes the past. This present, this day, this very moment we inhabit--it all will be held accountable for the things it didn't know, didn't understand.
Laura Lippman
#50. If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.
Warren Farrell
#51. I don't think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone's behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation.
Iyanla Vanzant
#52. All we want is justice for John Crawford and everyone responsible for John Crawford's death should be held responsible, the criminal justice system refused to hold those accountable so the civil system must.
Michael Wright
#53. Superior athletes want to be accountable for their own results. -
Marv Dunphy
#54. Continuously lying to yourself is just as fatal as suicide; only slower. Take ownership of your life, be accountable to you.
Noel DeJesus
#55. To wage war, we need a commander in chief who has made tough calls in tough times and stood up to be held accountable over and over, not first-term senators who've never made an executive decision in their life.
Carly Fiorina
#56. There is a circularity here I do not doubt. I am defending the Bible by the Bible. Circularity of a kind is unavoidable when one seeks to defend an ultimate standard of truth, for one's defense must itself be accountable to that standard.
John M. Frame
#57. Over time it's going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity. You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror.
George W. Bush
#58. Not only will you be held accountable for the things you do, but you will be held responsible for the very thoughts you think.
Karl G. Maeser
#59. Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will.
Debbie Stabenow
#60. You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.
Donald Rumsfeld
#61. You exert a certain degree of influence, and be it ever so small, it affects some person or persons, and for the results of the influence you exert you are held accountable. You, therefore, whether you acknowledge it or not, have assumed an importance before God and man that cannot be overlooked.
Lorenzo Snow
#62. When providing people with the direction and expected behaviors, you need to be alert to the fact that they will hold you accountable. People want to know if you are walking the talk. They will be watching your every move and you need to be one in the same ... every minute of every day.
Douglas Conant
#63. To be accountable means that we are willing to be responsible to another person for our behavior and it implies a level of submission to another's opinions and viewpoints.
Wayde Goodall
#64. Feminism expects a man to be ethical, emotionally present, and accountable to his values in his actions with women - as well as with other men. Feminism loves men enough to expect them to act more honorably and actually believes them capable of doing so.
Michael S. Kimmel
#65. When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.
Meg Cabot
#66. People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.
Robbie Williams
#67. A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
Thomas Paine
#68. A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society.
Shusaku Endo
#69. I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice, all Americans ought to be able to hold insurance companies accountable, I think we will have 60 votes in the United States Senate for a strong bill.
Ron Wyden
#70. By creating bureaucracies, we put civil servants in a position to make decisions based on abstract and theoretical matters, with the illusion that they will be making them in a rational, accountable way.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#71. The highest levels of the U.S. military, the Defense Department, and the White House must be held accountable for putting our troops at greater risk and diminishing Americas moral authority across the globe.
Lawrence Korb
#72. We need to be accountable to God's family. Once we start living in a way that is people-friendly to all of God's family, we will also be environment-friendly.
Desmond Tutu
#73. Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
Paul Wellstone
#74. There's responsibility, but there's also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad.
Derek Jeter
#75. But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.
Penelope Fitzgerald
#76. There are no holy atheist scriptures, no atheist pope and no atheist rituals, tenets, creeds, code or authority. Atheism cannot be held accountable for the activities of atheists in the same way that religion can be judged by its doctrine because atheism has no doctrines.
Armin Navabi
#77. We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal.
Patti Digh
#78. Human security comes only with human rights and the rule of law. Human rights are the basis for creating strong and accountable states without which there can be no political stability or social progress.
Irene Khan
#79. Quite simply, there can be no popular sovereignty without a real belief in the value of government. If government does not assume and carry out public responsibilities, less accountable institutions such as the corporation will do the job in their own self-interest.
Charles Derber
#80. After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open ... that government be accessible ... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.
Roy Barnes
#81. Rodney turned me to look at him and held my upper arms in his hands. "If he hurts you, I can't be held accountable for what I do." "I love you, you know that?" I replied and reached up on my toes to hug him.
Shelly Crane
#82. Joe's presence was a comfort but also a nagging reminder of what it meant to be accountable to someone else, how easy it was to lose myself if people weren't ever-present. He was to me what I needed from a man who wanted nothing from me.
Melissa Grunow
#84. I believe that all students, when asked to be accountable for their actions and to be socially aware citizens, will become agents for change!
Erin Gruwell
#85. I'm the only one that can be held accountable for the way my life turns out.
Colleen Hoover
#86. Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.
Cherrie Moraga
#87. We want accountability. We just buried a president [President Gerald Ford] who did not hold another president [President Nixon] accountable for war crimes and that's why we're in Iraq right now. Our leaders who get us into these messes are the ones who need to be held accountable.
Cindy Sheehan
#88. I have always believed that personal relationships are vital in business and that people should be directly accountable for their actions.
Richard Branson
#89. What history can do is show that people have to take responsibility for what they activate out of their tradition. It's not just a given thing one slavishly follows. You have to be accountable.
Karen L. King
#90. If I can't expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll? Or get a rebound?
Billy Donovan
#91. We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
Rafik Hariri
#92. I must be responsible and accountable for my actions.
Jason Williams
#93. What I didn't expect was that she would recognize that I needed to be held accountable.
I needed it.
I needed accountability so that I could change.
Penny Reid
#94. Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.
Amy Goodman
#95. The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#96. Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.
William Hague
#97. Syrians need to prepare for the aftermath if the Assad regime falls. Atrocities that could be considered war crimes have been committed in this country, and Syrians should rightly demand that the perpetrators be held accountable.
Richard Engel
#98. To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.
George Berkeley
#99. You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.
Aaron McGruder
#100. We are looking to the FTC to see whether companies that break their promises and collect personal information in an unfair and deceptive manner will be held accountable.
Marc Rotenberg
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