Quotes About Accountability

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. —Anne Lamott

The faults of women, children, servants, the weak, the indigent, and the ignorant are the faults of husbands, father, masters, the strong, the rich, and the learned." Wal!

Sometimes I don't get people. For people like Leon it was always someone else's job to bring the metal detector or the magnifying glass or pony up the fingerprint dust.

Look, Max, I don't know why Chigwell tried to kill himself. … But if it was because of the questions I was asking, I don't feel one minute of remorse. … If – and it's a mighty big if – if I'd known two weeks ago that my seeing him would make him turn on the gas, you'd better believe I'd do it again.

Para los mexicanos la vida es muy difícil por culpa de quienes deberían hacerla funcionar.

You can't go around blaming bad luck on someone else. everything that has happened to you is because you make it happen, okay?

The question shouldn't be, 'Are we guilty about our Colonial past?' it should be, 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present?

It's not wrong to ask questions. And if the prime minister is afraid of the answer, maybe that means you asked the right question. And maybe it means you need to ask more.»

Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.

He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.

We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

I can't think of any time we had a discussion [with Dre] about the aftermath of what happened the night before. We just had too much going on.

There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.

I'm going to do the time and I am going to do it the right way

I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.

The next time you drop my jacket, I'll drop you!

Every time something slips through the cracks, the cracks get bigger.