Jeremy Bentham Quotes

Lack of accountability in any decision making structure is not tolerable.

Gotta watch out for directors.

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

Being responsible, I will direct, and will be responsible for nothing that I do not direct.

What did they know, when did they know it, and what did they do about it.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

Why is everything always my decision?" I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else." Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.

It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

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.

You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.