Definition of Accountable
Accountable

Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.

Capable of being accounted for; explicable.

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Accountable Quotations

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

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Denis Waitley

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
W. Edwards Deming

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
Horace Mann

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli

Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.
John Tyler

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.
Jesse Ventura

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
John Stuart Mill

Accountable Translations

accountable in French is responsable
accountable in Italian is responsabile