Quotes About Accountability

If every civil servant does his job perfectly, then I am sure the world will be a better place.

I love it when you have to perform at a certain level or else. That's when I'm at my best.

I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid.

When you think about a drill sergeant, a drill sergeant expects you to perform your best, and if you don't, they're going to stay on you until you do.

The fans can accept a poor performance, but they won't take it when you choose not to put in the effort.

I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.

My job is to make sure we keep performing.

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.

I often ask people what I did wrong in the last meeting, because then others feel they have permission to own their mistakes, too.

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

Bureaucracies tend to perpetuate themselves, whether they are multinational corporations or large government institutions such as Medicare, often at the expense of those that they are supposed to serve.

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Mankind Men, said the Devil, are good to their brothers: they don't want to mend their own ways, but each other's.

I maintain that a student's memory is largely the teacher's responsibility.