Quotes About Accountability

When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it.

The SNP talks a lot - but they have proved that they cannot deliver.

If somebody were to feel the necessity to reduce themselves to a desperate state to achieve what they perceive to be their goals in life, people who work in fashion, who are models or photographers, shouldn't be judged because of untoward acts of others. As the saying goes, it takes two to tango.

There are people who appear on television who are paid for by shadowy think tanks whose financing they won't come clean about.

Watch, for example, how much of our speech is aimed at justifying our actions. We find it almost impossible to act and allow the act to speak for itself.

And if he's found guilty?" "Then his fate will be that of all the ignobles.

In order for a child to learn how to handle responsibility, he must be given responsibility to handle.

I don't much like it when people commit unsavory acts and try to shift the blame onto me.

We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.

I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

There will be no whitewash in the White House. (On Watergate investigation)

Software architects have to take responsibility for their decisions as they have much more influential power in software projects than most people in organizations.

Treat your time as if someone is paying for it. Someone is.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

There are these and other great causes that we were elected overwhelmingly to carry forward in November of 1972. And what we were elected to do, we are going to do, and let others wallow in Watergate, we are going to do our job.

We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White House.

In his nearly twenty-five years as Chief Justice, Roger Bannon never once voted to overturn a death sentence. But what truly distinguished him was a driving lack of curiosity as to whether any of these defendants were, in fact, innocent.

It won't be easy, given that some courts have ruled that even sleeping through your client's trial is not enough to qualify.