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I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.

    Author: Ahmed Chalabi
   

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

    Author: Anita Brookner
    Topics: Friendship

However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.

    Author: Bob Filner
   

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

    Author: Bob Woodward
   

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

    Author: Bob Woodward
   

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

    Author: Byron Dorgan
   

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

    Author: Carl Levin
   

I'll continue to fight for school choice and home schooling. Do I believe in accountability? You bet I do.

    Author: Charlie Crist
   

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

    Author: David Brin
   

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

    Author: Dianne Feinstein
   

In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency.

    Author: Doc Hastings
   

We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.

    Author: Earl Blumenauer
   

It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.

    Author: Estelle Morris
   

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

    Author: Imran Khan
   

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.

    Author: James L. Buckley
   

Tax breaks can serve a vital role in keeping and bringing jobs to our state; however, without accountability, they are little more than loopholes at taxpayers' expense.

    Author: Jeanne Kohl-Welles
   

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.

    Author: Jennifer Granholm
   

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

    Author: Jim Costa
   

There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so.

    Author: Jim Cramer
   

Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability.

    Author: John Hickenlooper
   

Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.

    Author: John Hutton
   

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.

    Author: Lee H. Hamilton
   

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

    Author: Louise Slaughter
   

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

    Author: Margaret Spellings
   

But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.

    Author: Melissa Bean
   

If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.

    Author: Melissa Bean
   

A local company has more accountability.

    Author: Paul Hawken
   

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

    Author: Paul Hawken
   

We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

    Author: Richard Lugar
   

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.

    Author: Robert Teeter
   

I have observed private and proprietary colleges, like the University of Phoenix, and the market they serve. And I found it intriguing the way in which they are trying to deliver the product, with more accountability, for a price.

    Author: Roy Romer
   

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

    Author: Ruben Hinojosa
   

I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.

    Author: Scott McCallum
   

It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.

    Author: Simon Greenleaf
   

It's time for these people to have accountability for what is being done.

    Author: Sonny Landham
   

You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.

    Author: Stacie Orrico
   

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

    Author: Steve Ballmer
   

Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light.

    Author: Virginia Foxx
   

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

    Author: William P. Leahy
   

Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

    Author: Yousef Munayyer
   

There is no accountability in soft money. None.

    Author: Zack Wamp
   

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