Quotes About Accountability

If you're going to break the rules, you have to live with the consequences.

Some Americans, like those working in government or nonprofits, know the consequences of having their salaries public.

I think words have consequences, and I think actions have consequences.

Life is about making choices, seeing those choices through, and living through consequences.

There has to be measures for players to know the consequences for their actions.

We all make decisions, and within those decisions, we have consequences.

You can say whatever you want, but there's going to be consequences to it.

Don't say things about people that aren't true... because there are consequences for that.

One of the things that I learned about myself is that I can get involved in an idea and forget, in a really terrible way, what are the actual consequences of what I'm working on?

There should be consequences that happen when you say things about people, especially racist things.

I always imagine a good leader is surrounded by people who call their mothers at the end of the day and tell them, 'Mom, you can't believe what I did today. Let me tell you about it.'

Police departments are always a reflection of the society that they serve. Is there such a thing as 'police culture?' Absolutely. Is that culture isolated form the surrounding society? Absolutely not.

The problems of reporting a bully - or, if you are a bully, of becoming less of one - become much more intractable, because your reputation surrounds you, and behavioral patterns are harder to escape.

Keep under strict surveillance and control those secret establishments which, within your government structures, seem to regard themselves as above the law.

Surveillance legislation passed in good faith has been stretched well beyond its original purpose.

The idea behind 'Defending Your Life': Imagine if you had to sit in a courtroom and watch your life. I don't care who you are - if you committed a crime and you had to have all of your emails searched and made public, who on this planet could survive that? Nobody.

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.

They're the last human beings susceptible to human shame. Politicians are the only people left for whom, occasionally, shame hurts them. Everyone else, we've sort of done away with it as a concept, and we're hurtling through space like animals, basically.

We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.

All sorts of famous sports people have been suspended for extended periods.

I take full responsibility for the mistakes that led to my suspension for the 2014 season.

The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.

But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.