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“Human security comes only with human rights and the rule of law. Human rights are the basis for creating strong and accountable states without which there can be no political stability or social progress.”

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Author:Irene Khan

“The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels.”

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Author:Mary Robinson

“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.”

“As the world becomes more environmentally aware, I believe that we must as individuals recognize the magnificence of our natural world, and feel a sense of accountability for our actions which affect it.”

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Author:Bob Irwin

“The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary system of local living economies comprised of human-scale enterprise rooted in the communities they serve and locally owned by the people whose wellbeing depends on them.”

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Author:David Korten

“If you know what's going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how to get things done that will help health, safety, opportunity, justice, accountability of powerful institutions to the people they are supposed to serve.”

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Author:Ralph Nader

“As we pursue our strategies world-wide, we accept a social and environmental responsibility as well. These responsibilities include the promotion of a sustainable economy and recognition of the accountability we have to the economies, environments, and communities where we do business around the world.”

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Author:John F. Smith, Jr.

“The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him for all our actions, founded upon moral freedom and accountability; a future state of rewards and punishments; the cultivation of all the personal, social, and benevolent virtues-these these never can be a matter of indifference in any well-ordered community. It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how any civilized society can exist without them.”

Source: Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution

“Unlike in school, in life you don't have to come up with all the right answers. You can ask the people around you for help - or even ask them to do the things you don't do well. In other words, there is almost no reason not to succeed if you take the attitude of 1) total flexibility - good answers can come from anyone or anywhere (and in fact, as I have mentioned, there are far more good answers 'out there' than there are in you) and 2) total accountability: regardless of where the good answers come from, it's your job to find them.”

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Author:Ray Dalio

“I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.”

Thinking Men Reason Accountability Good As It Gets

Author:Jack Nicholson

“The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.”

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Book:David McCullough Library E-book Box Set: 1776, Brave Companions, The Great Bridge, John Adams, The Johnstown Flood, Mornings on Horseback, Path Between the Seas, Truman, The Course of Human Events

Source: David McCullough Library E-book Box Set: 1776, Brave Companions, The Great Bridge, John Adams, The Johnstown Flood, Mornings on Horseback, Path Between the Seas, Truman, The Course of Human Events

“The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.”

Political Politics Simple Direct Things To Do Right Thing Accountability Subterfuge

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“The principle of self-reliance grows out of a fundamental doctrine of the Church, that of agency. Just as each individual is accountable for his choices and actions in spiritual matters, so also is he accountable in temporal matters. It is through our own efforts and decisions that we earn our way in this life. While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet. Ultimately, our own actions determine our blessings or lack of them. It is a direct consequence of both agency and accountability.”

“I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.”

Want Political Lines Clear Ministers Department Accountability

Author:Campbell Newman

“People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.”

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Author:Sri Mulyani Indrawati

“There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.”

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Author:John Miller

“It means a lot. It means I'm accountable.”

Mean Accountability

Author:Champ Bailey

“A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.”

Lasts Money Duty Accounts Debt Settling Accountability

Book:Living Every Day: A Book of Faith, Philosophy, and Fun,

Source: Living Every Day: A Book of Faith, Philosophy, and Fun,

“If we want unity, we must all be unifiers. If we want accountability, each of us must be accountable for all we do.”

Ifs Want Unity Accountability Want U

Author:Christine Gregoire

“Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.”

Men Desire Choices Moral Design Intention Affection Active Accountability

Author:Nathanael Emmons

“Leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.”

“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.”

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Author:Amy Goodman

“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.”

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Author:Lee H. Hamilton

“What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.”

Government Missing Accountability

Author:Paul Hawken

“A local company has more accountability.”

Company Locals Accountability

Author:Paul Hawken

“Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?”

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Author:Arundhati Roy

“The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.”

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Author:Barbra Streisand

“On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that most Americans share what one could call core liberal or progressive values: investment in health care and education over tax cuts; fair trade over free trade; corporate accountability over deregulation; environmental protection over laissez-faire policies; defending Social Security and Medicare over privatizing them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating it. The country prefers progressive alternatives to the failed policies of the conservative right.”

“The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years ago, and there has been no real accountability, and there has been no real effort to fix it.”

People Years Has Beens Real Country Three Effort Happened Streets Wall Years Ago Broke Accountability Three Years Mortgage

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the right.”

Knows Men Religion Given President Principles Trouble Subjects Mines Particular This Life Accountability Foe

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence

“Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.”

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Author:Robert Teeter

“We ask why there's violence in our school but we've systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools have become such a place of carnage? Because we've made it a place where we don't want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability.”

Want Should Mean Made School Asks Responsibility Violence Eternity Made It Accountability Carnage

Author:Mike Huckabee

“To me, what you want to do is find a way to let this play out between the virtual world and the physical world...Ultimately, I think society will get there. It will be messy, but we'll get there.”

Thinking World Way Want Play What You Want Accountability Messy Virtual World

Author:Eric Schmidt

“I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future, is in my hands, and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.”

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Author:Vijay Mallya

“If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you.”

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Book:Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings

Source: Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings

“A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good traits, and sigh with sadness at my bad ones. My good points are instilled by you and are your gifts. My bad points are my faults and your judgements on them. Let them take heart from the one and regret the other. Let both praise and tears ascend in your sight from brotherly hearts, your censers. ...But you Lord...Make perfect my imperfections.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.”

Conscience Dignity Rewards Oneself Accountability Holding On

Author:Wes Fesler

“When you call us, ladies and gentlemen, just so you know, we do have your phone number. And if you say anything untoward, obscene or anything like that, FOX security then will contact your local authorities, and you will be held accountable.”

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Author:Bill O'Reilly

“Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility.”

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Author:Jerry Junkins

“Some favorite expressions of small children: "It's not my fault...They made me do it...I forgot." Some favorite expressions of adults: "It's not my job...No one told me...It couldn't be helped." True freedom begins and ends with personal accountability. -Dan Zadra It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

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Author:Josiah Stamp

“Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.”

Thinking Accounts Accountability Where You Are Poor Richard Where You Are Going

Book:Autobiography: Poor Richard. Letters

Source: Autobiography: Poor Richard. Letters

“Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.”

Men Spirit He Man Duty Sake Uncomfortable Accountability Neglect

Book:Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays

“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”

People Ifs Fighting Accountability Old People Stand Alone

Author:Barbara Boxer

“We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.”

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Book:You learn by living

Source: You learn by living

“The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.”

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Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“There is an absence of democratic accountability and control in every sphere of government and the state. To address this debilitating legacy requires determined action and a deep commitment to transforming our society from a crisis ridden present into something all South Africans can be truly proud of.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.”

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Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.”

Ifs Giving Self Birth Realization Productive Accountability

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Healing of the world's woes will not come through this or that social or political theory; not through violent changes in government, but in the still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart.”

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Author:Arthur James Moore

“The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.”

Growth Keys Promise Accountability

Book:Principle Centered Leadership

Source: Principle Centered Leadership