Quotes About Accountability

It has become routine for national politicians to blame Europe. When something works, they claim it as their success. When something doesn't work, then Europe is to blame.

When you are in my classroom, you get everything from me. But you bloody well better give everything too.

The emoluments clause is in the Constitution for a reason: We, as Americans, need to know that the president acts in our best interests, not his own self-interest.

At least I'm going into the job with clean hands.

If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.

I think cleaning house at the CIA needed to happen.

One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't get it back. So I made sure I kept all my clubs.

Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else. To me, it was important to be able to chew out a player for screwing up and for him to accept it because he knew I liked him anyway.

Will I become a coach in the future? No way. I'd never be able to put up with someone like me.

I could have coached better.

I will say this about Thibs, he's a tough coach if you don't like to be coached or if you don't like to play or do things the right way, then he's tough.

I go out there with whatever the coaches call, and whatever they do, I just go out there, and I'm the player. Coaches coach, and players play.

I'm a player, the coaches coach.

Players and coaches alike, you sign up for 82 games. You get paid for 82.

The coaches can only put us in the right position, but it's up to the players to take the action.

They fire coaches before players.

Obviously I get paid to score and create chances, and that's what I have to do. But just at the same time, I have to be able to be responsible defensively, good on face-offs, all the little things that coaches love and that win games.

There's a very public quality to coaching.

My job is to get my shots up, to come to work, to watch film and get out of there. I don't get into the management and coaching side, that's their job - that's what they get paid for.

The court can, and must, only maintain its legitimacy through the dispensation of justice, not by coercion and censorship.

White collar crime must be taken as seriously as any other crime.

The problem is the for-profit colleges. These guys are absolute criminals.

With awareness come responsibility and choice.

The best comics enlist you to take accountability for who you are, whether you like it or not.