Accountability Quote by Newt Gingrich

All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So…

— David Duchovny

America is a country in which 75 percent of the people believe there's widespread corruption. We have got to go back to re-establishing a…

— Newt Gingrich

America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of…

— Edward Snowden

Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security…

— Garry Wills

Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as…

— Mark Hertsgaard

The American people deserve their government to be open and accountable.

— Charles Boustany

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression…

— Peter Kropotkin

Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

— Carly Fiorina

We as the American people have to hold ourselves accountable because we didn't hold our government accountable.

— Harry Markopolos

Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from…

— Michael Parenti

The American people want to have trust in their leaders.

— David Plouffe