Quotes About Accountability

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

If you want change you must take full responsibility for yourself. No one else defines how you live. You are the only one with the power for your self-change.

Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.

The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.

It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.

From those to whom privilege and opportunity are given, we have the right to expect much.

We are given a great power, we should capable enough to handle it and use it fair and square.

You'll never understand how powerful your choices have been or are until the day you ask yourself why you made them.

How you correct your mistakes will define your character and commitment to a higher power.

There is a lot of willful incompetence in solar industry that is in the process of coming to light.

Absolute power doesn't corrupt, but rather, reveals character.

Men with power had the responsibility to know what was best, and they so rarely did.

When you see something wrong and fail to do anything about it, even in the smallest effort, you accept the wrong.

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide tactics they would never openly admit to using.

If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of power go to jail without adequate evidence, or their bodies are found in the trunks of cars.

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

Delivering everyday greatness, or not, is up to you.