"No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions."
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"Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account."
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"The taxpayers deserve accountability."
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"As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating."
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"I am lord of myself, accountable to none."
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"The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future."
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"The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities."
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"I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability."
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"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."
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"I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability."
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"We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness."
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"Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals."
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"I want to bring accountability to the federal government. I want the federal government to respect the states."
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"Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as in moral truth and accountability they are."
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"Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable."
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"I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard."
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"There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse."
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"Accountability only works if you want it to."
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"American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review."
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"For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future."
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