Quotes About Accountability

I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'

If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone's search history, there's a litany of things they could idea police you about, and if it was published, you would be publicly shamed. Everyone would be publicly shamed. But we trust Google, and we trust the people that run that company.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

I believe we should come down very firmly on the guilty without infringing the civil liberties of the innocent, like publishing mobile phone bills.

It's hard for the same people who put you in the ditch to pull you out of it.

Media doesn't like when other media gets their credentials pulled - that's not OK.

When it's all about the work, it's clear who in the company is pulling their weight and who isn't.

For many of us, this is very painful, pulling the lever for someone many think odious. But please consider this: A vote for Donald Trump is not necessarily a vote for Donald Trump himself. It is a vote for those who will be affected by the results of this election. Not to vote is to vote. God will not hold us guiltless.

Pulling out of a fight is just like not taking a fight.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

If the government has any courage, it will punish those at the top of failed banks. Accountability is critical in every area of human endeavour - there has to be a penalty for failure; otherwise, it's only a matter of time before the economic pain our banks have caused to so many innocent businesses and homeowners is forgotten.

You must see the persons who are in charge - persons you can punish or vote for.

Companies do not commit crimes; only their agents do. And while a company might get the benefit of some such crimes, prosecuting the company would inevitably punish, directly or indirectly, the many employees and shareholders who were totally innocent.

I really believe our society has this propensity to punish.

The retention of the power to punish for contempt for acts of speech alone, which do not directly interfere with the administration of justice, has removed the last shred of accountability of the higher judiciary in the country.

Fraud investigations punish those who lie, knowing that they are lying, intending to fool others, and do it for money. No one should be too big to answer for that conduct.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

No one gets punished for corruption in our country.

If we're going to make a real dent in the bullying issue, we're going to have to address the bullies themselves: find ways to help empower them that don't include allowing them to be predators or to simply be punished.

The costs of badly-run NASA projects are paid for with cutbacks or delays in NASA projects that didn't go over budget. Hence the guilty are rewarded and the innocent are punished.

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

It's a lonely position and those are the margins you play in as a goalkeeper - you simply cannot make mistakes because you will be punished.

If you do a mistake, I think you should get punished.