Presidents and cabinet officials could send a strong message of accountability if they held senior appointees responsible for their performance.
The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.
Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.
There are cases in which somebody has demonstrated just such an outrageous disregard for the bounds of an acceptable decision that you want a measure of accountability.
People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.
Grace does not cancel out our responsibility or accountability for the things God has given us to do.
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
We are demanding police transparency and accountability so we can build trust and work together to make our communities safer.
There's a coalition of folks here in Georgia who want representation that's focused on local economic development and on accountability and not on the partisan circus in Washington.
Humor can prove to be the conversational lubricant you need to remove the tension from the most unpleasant management- and accountability-related conversations.
Laws were changed and regulations repealed until an Enron can set sail without responsibility, supervision, or accountability.
India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.
In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.
The idea that we should trust the security of our digital spaces to private companies that have no accountability except to themselves is ridiculous.
Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.
If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.
It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.
Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
I believe the processes of good governance have gone astray. Specifically there is an erosion of transparency, independence and accountability.
American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.
No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.
The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another:
teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership.
When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction.
The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.
The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.
We will seek to implement specific changes in the manufacturing and distribution practices to promote more responsibility and accountability.
Delivering the 'Grand Rapids Press' taught me responsibility, accountability, and all the principles of the rewards of hard work.
Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.
Ensuring the respect of international humanitarian law and principles is one of the key areas necessary to establish accountability chains.
We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.
The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.
Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.
True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability.
The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels.
The principle of the Communist Party of Vietnam is collective leadership with accountability and responsibility of the individual, which can never become authoritarian.
I had a difficult relationship with my parents, who died young, but they instilled self-discipline and a sense of honour and loyalty and accountability. I'm grateful for that.
There’s no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It’s always someone else’s fault. Usually people just blame the victim.
Track accountability is the best way to describe it. You're looking to see which dog accounts for the most tracks in the smoothest manner.
For me to do my job effectively, we need to continue to earn public confidence. That involves transparency and accountability.
Brexit is the people of Britain who are fed up with the European Union dominating their lives, and they want accountability.
I think the average American has forgotten the great feel for liberty and accountability that the framers of the Constitution believed.
It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.
My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.
The way I've been brought up to play cricket, the captain has always taken accountability for success and defeat.
Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.
I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.
Implicit bias - our subconscious associations of race - permeates everything that we do. And we must pursue systemic accountability to fix it.
Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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.
We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.
Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.
Man, I wouldn't know where to begin on education reform, but one thing we have to do is add teacher accountability WITHOUT stressing standardized test scores.
Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.
By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.
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