Top 35 Holding Accountable Quotes
#1. Bringing the IRS to heel can start with re-energizing and expanding congressional investigations and holding accountable those responsible for the targeting and other abuses.
Cleta Mitchell
#2. But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.
Margaret Spellings
#3. Today, only two groups in the United States have total immunity from lawsuits: foreign diplomats and HMOs. We believe it's time to end diplomatic immunity for HMOs. Holding them accountable is the only way to guarantee that you get the health care your family deserves.
Tom Harkin
#4. I'm all for holding each other accountable, but it feels as if we're hurling toward a society of finger-pointers, because we don't hold ourselves accountable for anything.
LZ Granderson
#5. At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable.
Donald Miller
#6. We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
Samantha Power
#7. Forgiving someone only absolves you from holding them accountable. When that person has not truly met that accountability, it is a weakness on your end, Miss Rachael. To forgive when they are unrepentant only relieves you of that responsibility.
Deidre Huesmann
#8. Setting boundaries and holding people accountable is a lot more work than shaming and blaming.
Brene Brown
#9. Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.
Virginia Foxx
#10. Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions!
David Pratt
#11. A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.
Paul Craig Roberts
#12. I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.
Anderson Cooper
#13. Reality discipline steers a course between an authoritarian style and a permissive style, giving kids some choices but also holding them accountable.
Kevin Leman
#14. I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign.
Paul Wolfowitz
#15. Only when we stop holding others accountable for all of our troubles can we truly be free.
Tian Dayton
#16. Holding your team accountable to do the jobs they're being paid to do is not being mean; it's being a manager, and that's your job.
Liz Weber
#17. I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs.
John F. Kerry
#18. There's not much you can do about the bias of the media other than try to counteract it by putting the truth out best you can, and the Internet has been a great weapon for holding the media accountable.
Ron Paul
#19. Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.
Wes Fesler
#20. True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.
Monica Crowley
#21. There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#22. Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability.
John Hickenlooper
#23. Let your life speak volumes holding your words accountable, lest you become just a talking head.
Sanjo Jendayi
#24. 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
#25. When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion, and mercy when there is no external force holding them accountable for what they do.
Barbara Coloroso
#26. ...we stop respecting and evaluating people based on what we think they should accomplish, and start respecting them for who they are and holding them accountable for what they're actually doing.
Brene Brown
#27. In the '70s and '80s, what private equity did is it changed corporate America. It started holding companies accountable, and for the first time managers started thinking like owners.
Henry Kravis
#28. The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.
Patrick Murphy
#29. A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
Thomas Paine
#30. 800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed ... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.
Djemal Pasha
#31. We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.
Gary Johnson
#32. Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use ... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.
Neal Barnard
#33. 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
#34. There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life. If you're holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you're wasting your time. You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn't receive.
Oprah Winfrey
#35. But when it gets dark, I'm off the hook. The day is officially rolled up and put away. I'm free to watch movies or stare at the wall, no longer holding myself accountable for what I might or might not have gotten done because the time for getting something done is over until tomorrow.
Abigail Thomas
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