Quotes About Accountability

It's easy to complain about the obvious reality that our political media are completely corrupted and engage in propaganda, not journalism. But as they are the largest, most powerful, and least accountable political advocacy group in the country, Americans also need to do more than complain as the press harms the country.

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

Responsibility for the proper conduct of children was not confined to their parents only. When they misbehaved, they misbehaved against the community. And a senior member of the community was expected to do something about it.

The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.

I used to delay doing stuff that I just didn't want to deal with - things like putting the garden hose away properly or doing the dishes right after dinner. Now I have this little voice in my head that says, 'I know you don't want to do this, but just do it anyway.' In other words, there's far less stuff that I put off until tomorrow.

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

That's the most important thing - once you're on the pitch, you need to do your job properly.

If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.

I think cameras should be in the courtroom, but they need to be managed properly. You need a judge to hold the line.

Clearly, any issues about breaching of expenses rules should be properly investigated.

We don't spend money properly in Washington, D.C. We jump these massive bills to massive bills.

It's not an excuse, but I'd say I didn't perform well in the big fights because I wasn't prepared properly.

Fame changes you and I suppose I stopped biting my lip for a while. I started to point out when people weren't doing their job properly.

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.

The Way of an enlightened ruler is to make it so that no minister may make a proposal and then fail to match it with actions and results.

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

As I've said all along, I don't make promises I can't keep, and I won't propose things we can't pay for.

Congress must do what we said we would and find ways to pay for bills we propose so we don't leave future generations mired in debt.

I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!

It's not something to complain about, but just the major difference between college and the pros is that in college you're guaranteed four to five years so long as you don't do anything criminally and in the pros you're guaranteed one day because you can be cut the next.

You learn in the pros that errors can be costly.

I would never tell young people to break the law or avoid prosecution.

Persons who wrongly managed or used the government's money will have to respond to justice in a process that is just, balanced and without political prosecution and without bias.