#account

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. ↗

— Will Rogers

#being #by the people #democracy #does #four

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#bank #course #dad #determined #freelance

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#decrees #may #must #order #paralyze

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#audit #canadians #country #higher #i

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know. ↗

— Susan George

#accounts #arithmetic #because #crude #know

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#any #australia #australians #between #england

Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#available #capacities #children #encouraged #equipped

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#accountability #basis #being #being done #done

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former. ↗

— James Madison

#advances #against #between #dead #debts

Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#another #bureaucrat #more #nothing #strength