James Bopp Jr. Quotes

Accountability begins with transparency.

Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.

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.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

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.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

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.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

When you establish a powerful position, the first think you have to do is check that power and make it accountable.

We as citizens should hold our government accountable for word and deed.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside.... Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.

For me to do my job effectively, we need to continue to earn public confidence. That involves transparency and accountability.

We've always tried to run a transparent and honest government.

We are going to make every effort to have a transparent administration.

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.

We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

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.

Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards.

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.