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  • Having a constant productive anxiety doesn't mean that people are miserable and wailing but that people know they will be held accountable if things do not go right.

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  • Benjamin Cardozo Danger invites rescue.... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
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    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Barbara Boxer Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bell Hooks For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Cass Sunstein Having a constant productive anxiety doesn't mean that people are miserable and wailing but that people know they will be held accountable if things do not go right.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin I am lord of myself, accountable to none.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bill Flores It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Molière It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Antonio Villaraigosa Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.
    Antonio Villaraigosa
    American politician (1953 - )
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  • Denis Waitley Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Archibald Alexander Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Barbara Jordan More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Bob Graham The American people do not have the information upon which they can hold the administration and responsible agencies accountable. I call that a coverup.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bob Graham This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Brene Brown To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Arundhati Roy Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Bill Bradley When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Aaron McGruder You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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