Quotes About Accountability

Sometimes, leaders' failures can cost these young people's lives.

Administrative failures can lead to severe political crisis - Parkash Singh Badal is a perfect example.

I want to display my failures at every turn, and ultimately I want to lead by example.

What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged.

People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

There has been the negative impact of spot-fixing and match-fixing, but it is the individual player's responsibility to look after that because if a player wants to do that, it is difficult to stop him. It is the individual player's responsibility to play fairly.

I think I'm fairly demanding, probably. You have to feel that when you're appointed to a job you have to do the job.

We have to have the faithful in government.

My thing is, everything I do, I leave it out there and let the chips fall where they may.

I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.

That's all I ever wanted - to go out as myself and have the success or failure fall on me.

Our nation's leaders are fallible. It is therefore time for us to be our own heroes. We can and must be the leaders that are so desperately needed.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Self-evaluation is hard, and it starts with me, and it falls on my shoulders, and I'm responsible. But at the end of the day, you are what you are.

Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man.

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

I still lie awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, that wasn't done to stop 9/11. To the 9/11 families, I said, you deserve better from your entire government. All of us.

If I get a bit big-headed, I get a good clip round the ear from my family and friends. I'm still the same person.

In the military, and in business, the most elite and effective teams I've seen or been part of are filled with individuals who take responsibility for their choices. Life is a series of decisions that you make and actions you take, not a series of things that happen to you.

I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I think there are 48 federal agencies that have SWAT teams.

Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable, and that's how I expect to coach this basketball team. I am truly excited about this next phase of my basketball career.

Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.

The Trump people make it extremely hard to figure out what's going on with their businesses, so we've done things like try to figure out all the people, the charities who rented out ballrooms and hotel rooms, all the NBA teams that stay at his hotels, people that pay him a lot of money and have other choices.

I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.