Quotes About Accountability

Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about.

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

If you visibly compromise someone or hurt someone, or hurt their vision, you're not supposed to still just stand there and wait for them to come to you.

If we concede three, and I am marvellous on the ball, it is no good.

The government can become so elitist and concentrate on elitist interests. To help the government, you must constantly hold its attention.

I have to do my work as party leader and that's what I'm concentrating on.

There is nothing in the company that is either above or below me, as far as I'm concerned.

I talk about beepers going off in the middle of a concert and people being late and not apologizing, and people not RSVP-ing, and adult children going back to live with their parents, which we didn't have in the '60s and '70s.

You just have to believe in what you're saying and be able to explain why you said it. There's nothing I say that I can't back up or at least explain why I came to that conclusion, so I'm not afraid of getting in trouble.

Responsibility is always about concrete action.

You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.

If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them.

Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.

No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.

But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company.

Well, I try not to let people down in the work that I do or in how I conduct myself.

People never confess to failure. They should.

If you're in government, that's one of the one things you have to do is to always avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Conflict comes from a person's own actions, not what someone else does to them.

When you decide you're going to be a public servant, you should not be able to take on interests that conflict with the city.

Congress is not an ATM.

Congress should get the job done.

Congress can't take the year off, election or no election.