"Share owners need accountable directors who will ensure the company isn't being run for the benefit of insiders at our expense".
"All of these states continue to significantly weaken the power and impact of goals by not using them to hold schools accountable," Jeremy Ayers, associate director of federal education programs at the left-leaning Center for American Progress, wrote in an e-mail.
"To protect market participants and promote market integrity, individuals who attempt to manipulate commodity prices must and will be held personally accountable," said David Meister, director of the commission's division of enforcement.
"We attended this meeting to make it clear to President Obama that we are in crisis, and police officers must be held accountable," said Rasheen Aldridge, director of Young Activists United St Louis and one of several protesters who met with the president.
"The decision to drop charges against President Kenyatta is devastating to the thousands of survivors who saw the court as their last hope for holding one of Africa's most powerful leaders accountable," said Karen Naimer, director of the Program on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones at Physicians for Human Rights PHRR).
"He wins points for being humble and accountable," says Chris Gidez, director of crisis communications at PR firm Hill & Knowlton.
"The lawsuit by Texas and other states really held him accountable," said Robert Law, director of FAIR government relations.
"Higher education often is a field full of special interests that will lobby hard to prevent being held accountable," said David Halperin, director of Campus Progress.
Riggs is mired in several federal money laundering investigations involving its accounts, and analysts say that banking regulators will hold directors accountable for how effectively they monitored Riggs's anti-money-laundering practices.
From chief executive officer sign-offs to options accounting, new rules are being implemented to hold executives or directors accountable for lapses in their fiduciary duty.
