#accountability

The taxpayers deserve accountability. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#deserve #taxpayers

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. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#around #assistance #bring #democracy #effectiveness

You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play. ↗

— Mike Lee

#basis #business #capital #cause #economy

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

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. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#ask #being #carries #films #financed

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#apply #hope #new #now #our

It was accountability that Nixon feared. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#feared #nixon

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

— Imran Khan

#audit #commission #feel #government #i

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

— Bob Woodward

#carefully #done #fairly #government #more

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. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#aid #american #countries #democracy #embrace