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If you were a public official, you had to be accountable, and you had to be reachable.

Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from their representatives.

Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.

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.

The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

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.

I do strongly believe myself that members of the government who sit in the House of Lords should be accountable to the elected House because otherwise there is a democratic deficit, and that is wrong.

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.