Quotes About Accountability

When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

Of most dreadful suffering, I am the cause.

It takes two to make an accident.

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

Whatever I am, you did it.

At first I was surprised and confused; then as he lay in his house and didn't move or breathe or speak hour upon hour it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested--interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which everyone has some vague right at the end.

You're a rotten driver, I protested. Either you ought to be more careful, or you oughtn't drive at all. I am careful. No you're not. Well, other people are, she said lightly. What's that got to do with it? They'll keep out of my way, she insisted. It takes two to make an accident.

The latter was considered a good fellow and a fine leader, until a year later, when he disappeared with a mess fund of eleven hundred dollars and, like so many leaders, proved exceedingly difficult to follow.

as he lay in his house and didn't move or breathe or speak hour upon hour it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested - interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.

Those Russkies won't put up with your whining and bellyaching for one second. I believe in freedom and individual rights as well as the next man but nobody has the right to live here and do nothing but run us down.

For years many in the oil-rich states argued that their enormous wealth would bring modernizations. They pointed to the impressive appetites of Saudis and Kuwaitis for things Western, from McDonald's hamburgers to Rolex watches to Cadillac limousines. but importing Western good is easy; importing the inner stuffing of modern society - a free market, political parties, accountability, the rule of law - is difficult and even dangerous for the ruling elites

The real test for the United States is political—and it rests not just with America at large but with Washington in particular.

There is pride in good government.

For four decades, America has largely been run by people who openly pledge to destroy the very government they lead. Is it any wonder that they have succeeded?

You will have to pay for your choices much more than you realize.

By calling in the Vigilantes, we are asking them to do what we can't or won't do ourselves.

blaming someone else is often much easier than taking responsibility. It was a national epidemic, along with stupidity and partisanship.

A sensitive and honest-minded man, if he's concerned about evil and injustice in the world, will naturally begin his campaign against them by eliminating them at their nearest source: his own person. This task will take his entire life.

Desde el punto de vista ético, se considera que toda fuente de riqueza es social y por tanto implica responsabilidades sociales en quienes se benefician de ella, tanto más cuanto más provecho obtengan.

Cuidado con los políticos para quien todo el mundo es «víctima» de las circunstancias… o «culpable» de

Cuando el gobierno dice que hay que perseguir los bulos, debería empezar por sí mismo