Top 313 Accountable Quotes

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
Mayors are accountable. Local governments are accountable.
Eric Garcetti
Anyone who has to be accountable in a time when resources are shrinking, where transparency is necessary, where the pressures are greater, is going to find that it takes a toll.
Sarah Lancashire
Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has absolute power and is accountable only to God. That, of course, was a very convenient interpretation for whoever was the ruler.
Mohamed ElBaradei
I enjoy being held accountable, I enjoy holding my teammates accountable and being someone that my teammates can depend on.
Jae Crowder
Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us – they are not ‘a special case,’ and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for ‘exceptionalism’ – and with it the right to ‘self-regulation.’
David Puttnam
You have to be in accountable relationships across race. Accountable means that they’re authentic, they’re sustained, and that you do talk about racism, and you are able to be given feedback.
Robin DiAngelo
We want people to know that Live Nation can serve all their live-music needs. If we’re going to be the ones who have a relationship with the consumer, then we have a responsibility to be the ones accountable if things go bad.
Michael Rapino
You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the law.
Eric Schneiderman
In the recovery of my life, I’ve been taught to be more accountable. Sometimes I fail miserably, but I try every day to be accountable: as a musician, to my wife, to my children, as a father, as a human being.
Bill Ward
In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn’t happening anymore.
Rush Limbaugh
I’m not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.
Cornel West
As leaders, it’s our job to hold people accountable and to produce results for our partners, customers, and families.
Clay Clark
The days of CEOs getting rich while shareholders lose has got to end. Management must be accountable.
John Paulson
I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public’s trust.
Mike Quigley
Women politicians tend to lead by being accountable for results. We focus on goals and outcomes. You can’t get by on just swagger.
Amy Klobuchar
It always comes down to being accountable to your teammates and so many times you get caught up in everything else going on. And I remember as a young guy, you always worry about, ‘Well, who’s getting the reps,’ and this, that and the other, and it takes you and distracts you away from just doing your job.
Matt Cassel
Republicans are a shrinking minority ruling an increasi

Republicans are a shrinking minority ruling an increasingly angry majority that not only wants to change the Republican policies that are moving wealth upward, but also threatens to hold Republican leaders accountable to the law.
Heather Cox Richardson
I would rather be responsible and accountable and help to reward the public shareholders going ahead.
Ashok Soota
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
Bill Bradley
I give people a huge amount of rope, and then I hold them accountable for the rope.
Sergio Marchionne
What would’ve been the downside of holding bin Laden accountable by our own values of justice by which our country is based on?
Mike D
Over the last few years, we have seen too many politicians disregard the Constitution as they voted to increase the size and scope of government. I will use my legal experience gained as a federal attorney to hold them accountable.
Matthew Whitaker
Every guy is a little different, how you talk to him, how you handle him and hold him accountable, every guy is a little different.
Ryan Tannehill
He instilled in me to be patient and understanding – my father would always hold me accountable, he taught me the importance of following things through, being responsible.
Ray J
I always recommend signing up to a race or charity event if you’re finding it tough to get going. I love it because it means I’m training for a reason. Being accountable is the best fear tactic for making you get fit.
Davina McCall
When you are working with a highly professional, motivated group that is accountable, the more freedom you give that group, the more discipline you’re going to get in return.
Joe Maddon
Ensuring guns are out of the reach of children and holding those accountable who are irresponsible is the first step in reducing firearm accidents.
Jimmy Gomez
Do not listen to the rhetoric from campaigns, but rather, hold everyone of us accountable, hold me accountable and every other candidate accountable to be a consistent conservative.
Ted Cruz
Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior.
Simon Mainwaring
You know, we’ve got to be able to understand that in order to curb their behavior, we’ve got to be accountable as parents in how we raise our children.
Jo Frost
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
Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.
John Oldham
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
When I begin to feel tired and do not want to work anymore, I see my members next to me working so hard without taking a break. When I see the members like that, I end up thinking a lot. Because we can see each other grow and hold each other accountable, we all improve together.
Jungkook
It’s interesting that there are only two groups of people in our country who are not held accountable for their behavior or decisions. One is exempted by the constitution, and that is foreign diplomats. The other, through a loophole, is HMOs.
Debbie Stabenow
Everybody has to be accountable on every play. The main thing is that we have to do our job. Going through all of the keys, making sure we are making the right reads, blocking the right person and getting the right route depth. Everything.
Julio Jones
Bruce Rauner needs to lead, and until he does, we must fight to hold him accountable.
J. B. Pritzker
As representatives, we are accountable first not to our party, not to our leadership, not to the chief executive, but just to our constituents.
Sara Gideon
The only time I’ve ever felt like I needed to measure my activity and involvement in holding people accountable for being violent on social media is when I think about the things that I might lose for saying something. That’s the only time I end up thinking about it.
Indya Moore
Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.
Helen Suzman
Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable, and that’s how I expect to coach this basketball team. I am truly excited about this next phase of my basketball career.
Jason Kidd
During my time in the state Senate, I’ve worked to make sure every Kansas child has the support they need to succeed. That means access to good public schools, but it also means strong early childhood programs, an accountable child welfare system to protect kids, and affordable, safe child care.
Laura Kelly
I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I’m an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that’s what we must be accountable to every day.
Mario Benedetti
I look forward to being a voice of reason in fighting for transparent and accountable budgets.
Ilhan Omar
So long as Trump says the right things at the right time to the right crowds, he’ll never be held accountable for his doublespeak or for defending the very things the conservative movement has been fighting against for years.
Katie Pavlich
Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn’t ideological; it’s good law enforcement.
Sally Yates
A man is accountable to no person for his doings.
James Otis
I was always the type of person that whenever I started

I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.
Victor Cruz
Agencies must know who they are accountable to. If the agencies know who they are accountable to but we cannot say who they are accountable to, then really it is a very sad situation that is bound to be misused. It is bound to affect human rights.
Asma Jahangir
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
The well-stuffed slave masters currently gorging themselves in Cuba’s halls of power need to be held accountable.
Robert Zubrin
The way police do what they do is under the microscope. You’ve got people on the one side saying, ‘We need to be holding our police accountable.’ And you’ve got a lot of people who support the police saying they’re being ‘unfairly vilified.’
Dan Abrams
A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.
Henry Paulson