Quotes About Accountability

The solution is to adjust our demands, so as to bear the costs of them ourselves, and to find the way to put pressure on businesses to do likewise. And

If we base our love for our dog on the premise that he, like us, is a person, then we damage both him and ourselves. We damage him by making demands that no animal can fully understand – holding him to account in ways that make no sense to him. We will feel bound to keep him alive, as we keep each other alive, for the sake of a relation that, being personal, is also eternal.

Accountable government does not come through elections. It comes through respect for law, through public spirit and through a culture of confession.

accountable government does not come through elections. It comes through respect for law, through public spirit and through a culture of confession. To

Man is the sum total of everything he has done, wishes to do or not to do, and wishes he had done, or hadn't.

All right. You wanted me," I stated, "and now you have me, heaven help you.

On jest moim bratem. Ale to nie moja wina.

This girl either brings out the worst in me or shuts me down completely. Not true. I did it myself. Still....

Acquit yourself as well as I have-bastard!

There must be a lot of duplication in our country's laws, said Dukhi. Every time there are elections, they talk of passing the same ones passed twenty years ago. Someone should remind them they need to apply the laws. For politicians, passing laws is like passing water, said Narayan. It all ends down the drain.

He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.

Washington must have seen that Hamilton, for all his brains and daring, sometimes lacked judgment and had to be supervised carefully.

Public infamy must restrain what the laws cannot.

In his essays on the need for executive-branch vigor, Hamilton continually invoked the king of England as an example of what should be avoided, especially the monarch's lack of accountability. Every president "ought to be personally responsible for his behaviour in office.

This is the true secret . . . that wherever a regiment is well officered, the men have behaved well—when otherwise, ill—the [misconduct] or cowardly behavior always originating with the officers, who have set the example.

Every president "ought to be personally responsible for his behaviour in office.

Washington grew as a leader because he engaged in searching self- criticism. "I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors," he once wrote. "The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this, because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults or remove prejudices which are imbibed against him."41 The one thing Washington could not abide was when people published criticisms of him without first giving him a chance to respond privately

Months after leaving office, he wrote to the Bank of the United States and admitted that he did not know his account balance because he had lost his bank book—this from the man who had created the bank.

He constantly reminded his son that it was easier to launch a charitable commitment than to end it.

Perhaps if Rockefeller had made himself available at the beginning of his career as he now did at the end, he might not have been sitting in the witness stand.

If we have done anything wrong," said Pierpont, "send your man to my man and they can fix it up.

Not "unless we find out . . . they have done something we regard as wrong

As Standard Oil's leading figure, he was the only person who didn't have any direct operational responsibility.

Following his father's example, he recorded every expense in his little book