Quotes About Accountability

Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.

Telling the truth about domestic violence - and those who shield it - should not be punished.

Telling the truth matters. Especially at a college.

How can any company know if its processes, products, people are safe? Only if everyone is watching and telling the truth. The first part can be assumed; the second cannot.

Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone's anything. If he's telling the truth, why does he have such permeability without any government oversight? Is that OK with you?

One of the roles of the press is to make sure that the president, in the voice of the people, is telling the truth.

In the world of President Trump, we really want people who aren't going to lie. We want people who can sit in front of a congressional committee for hours and, however mad they may make us, never give us reason to doubt that they are telling the truth as they see it.

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.

The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fishbowl and tells you their point of view.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

American baseball, by luck, trial, and error, and since the famous playing rules council of 1889, had struck on an almost perfect balance between offense and defense, and it was that balance, in fact, that and the accountability—the beauty of the records system which found a place to keep forever each least action—that had led Henry to baseball as his final great project.

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent.

judge people by what they do and not what they say they will do.

Barely six months after Ribbon Creek, Krulak had lost eleven Marines in another training accident. How he handled the incident is an example of the public relations axiom, "Tell the truth. Tell it all. And tell it quickly.

Here's the bottom line: The secret world of intelligence--at least in the United States of America--represents everything wrong with the government, the industrial era, our financial-economic system, and our ethics.

The bottom line is that our government is not intelligent about how it pursues the public interest, because its decisions are not informed decisions (and its interest is generally not the public's).

I once heard a judge tell a defendant there was a difference between being sorry for his actions and being sorry he got caught

John F. Kennedy that would begin to define him as a person and shape his future career choice. "To whom much is given, much is expected.

This was also his MO. Excuses for his behavior so he wouldn't have to accept what he'd done.