Top 313 Accountable Quotes

When executives allegedly lie to the investing public about their company’s performance and thereby harm the integrity of the market, they must be held accountable.
Audrey Strauss
A positive, high-performance culture can quickly turn negative if the CEO is not rigorous in constantly articulating values and holding people accountable for both results and values.
Ron Williams
We continue to confront racism from our past and our present, which is why we must hold everyone, from the highest offices to our own families, accountable for racist words and deeds and call racism what it is – wrong.
Stacey Abrams
The president can violate the law, and when he does, he is supposed to be held accountable. That is supposed to be one of the pillars of our democracy.
Cenk Uygur
Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from their representatives.
John Fleming
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
That’s the hard thing about this sport. You don’t have a guy over you telling you what you have to do. ‘You have to do this, you have to do that.’ So at the end of the day, I’m responsible for myself. So what I do is I put people in place around me to help keep me accountable.
Travis Browne
Jon Tester needs to be held accountable for his extreme partisan liberal record of supporting President Obama’s judicial nominees 99% of the time but then opposing President Trump’s nominees.
Matt Rosendale
I think the more we see more officers holding each other accountable, the more we will see people trust cops in this country.
Angie Thomas
We need to hold ourselves accountable for the work we do and the choices we make.
Christopher A. Wray
Whatever I’ve experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I’m proud of that. But it’s someone who wakes up early, works all day, believes in charitable work, business-minded, diligent, accountable, problem-solving… I’m so much about school, consistency and tradition.
Drew Barrymore
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
‘Madame Bovary’ advanced slowly, as slowly as it would have to have, given an author who held himself accountable to each word, that it be the right word, of which there could be only one.
Kathryn Harrison
I think sometimes it’s about just finding the measuring stick that’s different than the one the world puts on you. It’s finding the one in which you’re held accountable and how you hold each other accountable; what a good job looks like in a particular situation and how to be better at your job than you were yesterday.
Sam Hinkie
As a real estate investor, you’re ultimately accountable to you and your checkbook. Of course, you will need to stay on top of your local coding regulations and ordinances. But once you get the hang of it, you really shouldn’t have any problems with ordinances.
Fabrizio Moreira
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
T-Lue is as bright as they come. He’s incredible at making adjustments, holding guys accountable, relating.
David Fizdale
There are lots of YouTubers that no one knows about who are getting hundreds of thousands of views on content that we would be really upset to see. And no one’s holding them accountable because their audience shares all the same biases.
Hank Green
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
bell hooks
I think, as an actor, and particularly if you are playing the lead in something, you have to view yourself as the head of department for the cast. All of the other departments are accountable and have somebody at the helm who is leading them all the time, and I don’t think that the actors should be any different.
Daniel Radcliffe
But I will say this, look, I don’t think that there’s anyone in the country who thinks that impeachment’s going to lead to Donald Trump leaving office. The point is, you need to put down a marker as to who is accountable, what the President can get away with.
Sam Seder
In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student’s performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account.
Lewis B. Smedes
What makes Mr. Trump my choice for president is he will break the grip of the donor class on our government and make it accountable to working families again.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
The Transparency Bill is something we should all support – practical steps in promoting an open and accountable democracy.
Andrew Lansley
The signal of the importance of something is whether you’re actually measuring it and you’re holding people accountable to improving those numbers.
Sandra E. Peterson
If there is not competent Opposition, the government th

If there is not competent Opposition, the government that comes to power won’t have anyone to hold them accountable.
Raj Thackeray
Sometimes the most motivated person to change something is the one being held accountable at the moment.
Harris Faulkner
You might not be a big fan of politics, but you can still participate. All you need to do is vote for people you believe will work on these issues, and if they don’t work the way they should, then it is your responsibility to call them, organize a town hall, and demand that they show up – hold them accountable.
Emma Gonzalez
Anne Marie Schubert is one of the most horrible district attorneys in the state of California. She represents Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions. It’s no wonder she continuously refuses to hold the police accountable for violence against people of color.
Shaun King
From before I was born, we Arabs have been caught between two forces that, seemingly, cannot be defeated: our ruthless dictators, who oppress and humiliate us, and the cynical western powers, who would rather see us ruled by criminals loyal to them than have democratically elected leaders accountable to us.
Hisham Matar
I want to restore U.S. leadership within a rules-based liberal world order that collectively holds nations accountable for their illiberal behavior, whether in foreign or domestic spheres.
Joe Sestak
I want to make sure that I can stand behind every word I’m saying, because whoever I am in six months is going to have to be accountable.
Liv Bruce
I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.
Gina Raimondo
Being a candidate who doesn’t take corporate PAC money forced me to be accountable to the people I serve and to meet them where they are.
Jamaal Bowman
If you can’t hold yourself accountable and get your job done then you’re not going to be successful.
Danny Amendola
Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will.
Debbie Stabenow
What I argue is that if I’m going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record… my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions.
Steve Mann
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
John Stuart Mill
Going to an organization where winning means something, where you’re held accountable and you have goals and things like that I think that molds you early as a player and gives you that platform and foundation to be a professional.
George Hill
Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
Catharine MacKinnon
A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country’s future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.
Dambisa Moyo
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
Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.
Natan Sharansky
Nowadays you don’t need to be a senator or a CEO or a celebrity to have a voice in the media, and if you happen to be a senator, a CEO or a celebrity, you have a thousand people each with their own respective audiences to hold you accountable.
Bernie Sanders
It is time to go on the offense. Hold people accountable for the wrongdoings they do and commit against the American people, use the vestiges of the Constitution which gives us the outline of how we hold them accountable and make the Justice Department do their job.
Paul Gosar
Be aware and hold the government accountable.
Mohit Chauhan
It’s not enough to just not be racist. You’ve got to be anti-racist. You’ve got to hold everybody accountable.
Kyler Murray
We take all potential threats to public and private sector systems seriously and will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace.
Christopher A. Wray
As you get older, you get less people to hold you accountable, especially in pro sports. The players have all the power. Unless you play for the Spurs. Then you’re a college kid for life.
Diana Taurasi
The broad consensus is that our system should be better structured to deter crimes without giving up on everyone who commits them, and should better balance resources to hold violent criminals fully accountable without imposing unnecessarily harsh sentences on nonviolent offenders.
Bob Casey, Jr.