Top 161 Accountability Quotes

Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.
Kent Beck
Transparency and accountability must be restored in politics.
Park Won-soon
I think it’s all machismo – ‘Come on, you’ve got to guard your guy, man. If you can’t guard your guy, then you can’t play defence.’ A lot of it is accountability, where you say, ‘Hey, you’re matched up with him. Go do your job.’ The zone kind of sometimes moves a lot of pieces around.
Nick Nurse
While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.
Ruben Hinojosa
We are demanding police transparency and accountability so we can build trust and work together to make our communities safer.
Malcolm Jenkins
The biggest word in football, and it’s a dirty word – no one likes to use it – is accountability.
Chris Coleman
Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.
Ted Cruz
‘No Child Left Behind’ requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.
Dianne Feinstein
As a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Educatio

As a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, I will continue to work to bring resources, accountability and relief to our health care system.
Jacky Rosen
Truth and accountability were drilled into me as a child.
Katharine Gun
While Congressional members face the political costs of debate on military action, our service members bear the human costs of those decisions. And if we choose to avoid debate, avoid accountability, avoid a hard decision, how can we demand that our military willingly sacrifice their very lives?
Tim Kaine
The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.
Simon Mainwaring
Transparency is key to reciprocal accountability, which we use to be both free and smart. It is the miracle tool that enables us to question the lies of monsters.
David Brin
I think that any time you get into an area where it requires humility, and accountability, it’s gonna get touchy. And so I understand the reality of when someone says something that requires you to look at yourself and change, it’s not easy.
Maya Moore
One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there’s no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That’s true of union bosses – and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.
Nicholas Kristof
I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.
Stephen Baldwin
I’m a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I’ve spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.
Vijay Mallya
Traditionally, in America, we have accountability as kind of a key feature of each branch of government in some way. So, you know, you obviously have to run for office. Or if you’re a judge, you’ve got to be nominated by political officials and so on.
Neal Katyal
If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.
John Gerzema
There is no accountability today… no willingness to focus on big ideas.
Michael Bloomberg
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
Anita Brookner
Independence sounds good in theory, but in practice, it is mutually exclusive with accountability. The more independence you give a prosecutor, the less you make that prosecutor accountable to the public and regular checks and balances.
Neal Katyal
I see my role as police commissioner as providing strategic oversight, support and accountability for the bureau.
Ted Wheeler
You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.
Stacie Orrico
There is definitely a balance that I have to strike both in terms of supporting the Police Bureau – making sure they have the tools and the resources they need to do their jobs effectively. But I also have an important role to play when it comes to oversight and accountability.
Ted Wheeler
This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries.
Robert Green Ingersoll
If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I’m out. I’m gone.
Craig Ferguson
I think the average American has forgotten the great feel for liberty and accountability that the framers of the Constitution believed.
Joe Jamail
I really believe, if I learned anything in the military, it was that I was accountable for my actions and I like to be part of the team that kind of brings that back to Washington, D.C. – not just responsibility, but accountability and being ready to lose my job over doing what’s right.
Joe Sestak
There’s accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they’ve been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they’re going to continue to be so.
Jim Cramer
Maybe you’re not perfect, but you’re willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That’s a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there’s something incredibly hopeful about that.
Brie Larson
The myth of the Kennedys – and the hold – was always the hold of the renegade rich, out there on the frontier beyond accountability.
John Gregory Dunne
Jimmy Butler embodies those qualities just like the Heat players of our great past have done before. Alonzo Mourning, Chris Bosh, Udonis Haslem. He just embodies these qualities of professionalism, of work, of accountability, of being reliable. And he leads.
Erik Spoelstra
Accountability breeds response-ability.
Stephen Covey
Portraying Mozart is a scary task. Whenever I’m asked to portray actual historic figures, it comes with extra accountability. Not just to your director and playwright, but to the man himself and the beloved persona that the public forms.
Rob McClure
I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.
Campbell Newman
Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.
John Cornyn
The main reasons for the growth and institutionalization of corruption are: a culture of secrecy with lack of transparency, and weak institutions for securing the accountability of public servants, such as the Vigilance bodies, the criminal investigative agencies and the judiciary.
Prashant Bhushan
What we’re dealing with is institutional, and unless systems are put into place that will ensure accountability, we can expect racially biased police practices to continue.
Michelle Alexander
Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment,

Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.
Safra A. Catz
Consumer accountability drives quality and efficiency.
Pete Hoekstra
We have to work together in order to prove that genocidal campaigns will fail and lead to accountability of the perpetrators and bring justice for survivors.
Nadia Murad
However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.
Bob Filner
We want councillors and MPs to be more closely involved in housing issues because this will help to strengthen local democracy and accountability.
Grant Shapps
Accountability matters.
Kyle Larson
Again, the truth of the matter is we haven’t paid that much attention to high school accountability.
Margaret Spellings
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
I take accountability for my actions.
Rajon Rondo
No Child Left Behind taught us that parents, teachers and state and local leaders are more suited to address students’ needs than a one-size-fits-all accountability system developed by Washington bureaucrats.
John Kline
You need basically some accountability rules, which means democratic checks and balances at the euro zone level, and definitely, you have to increase convergence in terms of taxes, in terms of social affairs and so on.
Emmanuel Macron
Things happen. That’s what makes us human. But just acceptable and accountability and responsibility – I feel like people in this generation lack accountability, and when you can’t accept what you’ve done or you can’t accept that, then you can’t heal from it.
Jordyn Woods
Requiring fund managers to disclose how they vote would increase accountability and mean that pensioners and ordinary investors would more easily be able to see how those acting on their behalf vote on all issues, including remuneration.
Chuka Umunna
The royal family are protected from public accountability by law.
Heather Brooke
There are media houses which put headline with a question mark, and that is how they can get away without taking the accountability of the allegation. They put the question mark. Let’s analyze it a little – a common reader will not remember the question mark: they will remember the allegation.
Vicky Kaushal
Visit USA.gov and you’ll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.