What does it mean to be accountable?

Personal Development Attribute

Accountability- The fact or condition of being accountable; responsibility

    ''If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.''

-Alan Dershowitz

When it comes down to it this quote it saying that when decisions are made you held the choice of thinking of what is right for the people. Everyone is accountable for something in there life even if its a small responsibility. An example of being accountable is on the job. If you do not go to the job you will be accountable for doing today's work and end the might take the responsibility of being fire.