Quotes About Accountability

I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.

No, I was pleased that it is possible for somebody who makes full disclosure as I've done, not only of the contributors, but also how the money is spent.

We have got to be brave and bold and bring people with us, not try and look all ways. Trying to please everyone usually means we have pleased no one.

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.

I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.

A lot of people get elected to Congress, and sometimes a part of their pledge is a term-limit pledge. There's no accountability.

I'm very conscious I've got a lot of faults, the same as everyone, and I have done plenty of things wrong.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

Why do politicians and bureaucrats get salaries and perks from the pockets of the poor and do nothing for them? So I took action against the corrupt and the lazy.

Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.

That's how life is. All eyes on you, and all things point to you. Once things don't go well, fingers going to point.

We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.

I think a lot of the time, when things were going wrong, I would get blamed for things because I was the point guard.

The Bank had never used the word 'corruption' at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel pointed out to me, that quite a number of our shareholders represented were not immune from corruption in their governments.

We have always pointed out discrepancies in the government. It was not for my personal benefit but for the people.

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

Finger pointing never got anything done!

Let's end the political games. Stop the finger pointing and do the work the American people sent us here to do.

Any time a team doesn't score points, it's on me.

The thing is, if nobody points out what's wrong, then nothing will ever be done about it.

There's no reason why fiscal responsibility is a Democrat or a Republican point of view. It ought to be all of our points of view.

There's no room for being disappointed or for excuses, 'Oh, I had four match points.'