Quotes About Transparency And Accountability

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

Mike Paul

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Ben Bernanke

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

Mike Quigley

#6. 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

#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. 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

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

Heather Brooke

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Simon Mainwaring

#14. The energy of youth with the experience of age is a lethal combination.

Murad S. Shah

#15. Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.

Linford Christie

#16. God always offers forgiveness," I said, softening my tone, "to those who are truly sorry. But sorry isn't a feeling, you understand. It's an action. A determination to make things right.

Phil Klay

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

John Thune

#18. So many of us have loved ones and people we really care about, and the only time we show affection is when they are gone. I have preached at funerals, and you see loved ones who didn't even say hello to dear ones when they were alive. Give them hugs, kisses while they are alive and need it.

George Foreman

#19. You get a glass tank, put it where the TV used to be, and all you get is a lizard - something so
stupid that every time the maid moves a rock the lizard thinks it's been relocated miles away.

Chuck Palahniuk

#20. Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.

Nicolas Bentley

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

Nancy Pelosi

#22. It is a source of encouragement that many homosexuals report being transformed through the power of the Gospel.

Billy Graham

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my fingers unclench from their rage fists.

Stephen Colbert

#29. There is extraordinary chemistry that exists in long-term relationships

Jay Conrad Levinson

#30. So will you meet me?"
"Yeah. Sure. Where."
"Montrag's safe house in Connecticut. If you were the one who killed him, you know the address.

J.R. Ward

#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. 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

#33. I'm addicted. I'm addicted to golf.

Tiger Woods

#34. I have moments all the time when I play.

Michael Franti

#35. 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

#36. Once you have opened up prisoner interrogation, wiretapping, border patrol, jailing and the services of the military, when this has been turned into a for-profit business in this endless war, then we're in deep trouble.

John Cusack

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

Alexander Stille

#38. I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!

Edan Lepucki