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I'm a big proponent of accountability.

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

We have to be responsible in what we say as leaders.

Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy.

I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.