Quotes About Accountability

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

We will hold Planned Parenthood accountable for knowingly endangering their patients by providing illegal abortions at a facility that was not properly licensed nor prepared to handle an emergency.

If someone is complaining about the question or the questioner rather than providing an answer, they're usually trying to change the subject.

I own full responsibility for providing for my children.

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

As an industry, we have a responsibility to manage risk in a way that is prudent.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

We don't need a psychologist with the Dutch team; we are grown-up men. The ones who have a problem with other players or the manager should tell them face-to-face. That is the only psychology we need.

If you're a public official, your life is an open book.

We desperately need to have a public that actually cares whether things are true of not.

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.

It's a special thing to be a public company.

When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.

I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

As an artist, you know as a person in the public eye, period, you kind of have a responsibility to the younger kids that are watching and emulating what you do.

I'm in the public eye, so I have a responsibility as an actress to my generation. I think that's what acting's all about.

It's a strange kind of responsibility being in the public eye and having people who follow you and admire you.

Because I'm a very public figure, everybody knows what my returns are.

You know that being a public figure is instantly grounds for prosecution.

As a public figure, you have to maintain a certain demeanor. We also have responsibility to the public, but of course, I'm not perfect. I have a lot of flaws; my husband can tell you that, my friends, even. They know who I am.

I'm a public figure. It's up to me to take the initiative to explain things. It's my responsibility.

Unless you believe that politicians and agencies are above a money grab, especially if it can be justified under the auspices of a public health emergency, then you should favor prudent, careful allocation of resources with accountability on the front end and follow-up after the fact.