Quotes About Accountability

I think everybody goes off and does their own vision. And I don't take responsibility for other people's work, frankly. It's bad enough taking responsibility for my own.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud.

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

I frequently say that I never share blame, I never share credit, and I never share desserts!

The thing most frightening about Donald Trump is he doesn't know what he doesn't know and doesn't seem to care about what he doesn't know, and as a result of that, he doesn't know what the consequences of his actions might be.

To a certain extent, I have to be the president's bad cop from time to time. I have to look people in the eye and tell them, 'No, we don't have enough money for that.' That is not a very popular thing to do in Washington.

I'm a human being and I will make mistakes from time to time but what I will say is that any mistakes I make are very honest ones.

There's a lot I need to improve on. YAC, which I'm last in. Being a better leader. Not getting frustrated when things aren't going my way.

Everybody gets frustrated with themselves when they are not playing well because they feel like they are letting the team down.

I try to fulfill my role and my responsibility as much as I can.

In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

The people will demand answers from all the dictators and the people who have not allowed this country to function.

As CEO, I accept responsibility for the irregularities that have been found in diesel engines and have therefore requested the Supervisory Board to agree on terminating my function as CEO of the Volkswagen Group.

It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.

So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.

It is the responsibility of the government to ensure the House functions.

There will always be a rule. There will be people who break the rules. There will be consequences. We fundamentally think these things will be true for a time. The question becomes, What are the consequences? Who enforces the consequences? What are the worst consequences?

Election funding is one of the biggest fault lines in our electoral system.

Unfortunately, too often the media doesn't ask the simple question: Why did elected leaders wait until the 11th hour to address government funding we've known would expire for months, if not years?

Obviously, the BBC is funded by licence-payers. If you are paying for a TV licence, when you see what people are paid, then you know you're funding that.

Those who embezzle public funds should be ready to face the consequences.

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.