Quotes About Accountability

Be beholden to no one, he had said. Make sure you owe nobody any favors.

Too many of them see it as an "us and them" situation, Crowley had said when he briefed Will for the posting. After all, it is part of our task to keep tabs on them, to assess their battle readiness and their level of skill and training. Some Barons and Battlemasters don't like that. They like to believe they're running their own race and they don't care to have Rangers watching over their shoulders.

Let it all out. Let's hear the litany of my sins. I'm a terrible girl. I'm irresponsible. I'm a disgrace to the royal house of Araluen.

We don't want to have to come and rescue you.

Me?" Will said, his voice breaking into a high-pitched squeak of indignation. "What's it got to do with me?" "It's all your fault!" Halt shouted irrationally. And as he said it, the two girls realized he was right.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

Delays and laziness are the two great gulfs in which multitudes of souls are drowned and perish.

The practice of personal accountability: We discipline our thoughts. We ask better questions. We take action.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then you are without excuse...

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don't believe that it's when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he's able to do them, and that he does them well.

There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.

They have forgotten these immortal words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor whose passion for truth drove him to confront Adolf Hitler and Germany:   Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.1.

Keep your head down. Avoid the limelight. Get on the right committees. Go to hearings. Do your homework. Build up a substantive portfolio. And never forget the care and feeding of the people who sent you here.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

accountability. Now there is a word with a solid – indeed a solemn – pedigree. The Good Book itself tells us that on the Day of Judgement everyone shall be required to give an account of themselves.

language has consequences.

Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.

It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.

That was an explanation, not an excuse.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

I don't care what party you belong to or what office you're seeking—you owe it to your constituents, to the people you're looking to serve, to get it right. If you say something is so, then it ought to be so.