Quotes About Accountability

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.

America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

Become that rare person where people know that your word is your bond and you're going to do exactly what you say you're going to do.

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.

But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.

In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.

My job is to show my clients that their anger is rarely someone else's fault. It's their flaw.

Much like the death sentence, I believe, hidden cameras should be used in the 'rarest of rare' cases.

It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada, and it's gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system.

Do not listen to the rhetoric from campaigns, but rather, hold everyone of us accountable, hold me accountable and every other candidate accountable to be a consistent conservative.

People looked to rating agencies to do the work for them.

I think political parties can be funded in a perfectly rational way without being corrupt.

My dad, in the best way possible - not in an intimidating way, but with the physically intimidating qualities that every father has - can truly be scary. The only time you saw that side of him, the raw side of him, would be in a moment when you truly were the one that screwed up.

I'm not part of the friends-and-family club; I'm not part of the pay-to-play club; I'm not looking to get re-elected. I'm not looking to go to another office and fill my campaign coffers. I don't need any friends in Albany except the people of the state.

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.

I've certainly honored the two promises I made: Always tell you the truth; never vote with my re-election in mind.

I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.

We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.

I feel humanity is often displayed in how we react to our mistakes and the misdeeds committed against us.

What I learned: if you've done something you think the public is going to react badly to, you can't delay it, hide from it, or ignore it. You have to address it head on and take your beating. Always take your beating.

It's been vindicating to see the reaction from lawmakers, judges, public bodies around the world, civil liberties activists who have said it's true that we have a right to at least know the broad outlines of what our government's doing in our name and what it's doing against us.

People see themselves on camera. They're ashamed of the things that they do, so they have a choice: Either they accept responsibility for it, or they blame the show for it. It's a human reaction.