Quotes About Accountability

the power to command frequently causes failure to think;

If I were a king, the mischief would be much greater; for I should ruin not only myself, but my subjects.

There is not a single right to be discovered without a duty from which it springs.

I have no patience for anyone who enjoys meat but moans about slaughterhouses, who wears cheap clothes but deplores sweatshops, who weeps about climate change from behind the wheel of an SUV or from the window seat of an airplane.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

as the public grows more and more cynical, the politician feels less and less compelled to take his promises seriously.

So refusing to say you won't do something is the moral equivalent of doing

You must own the choices you have already made before you can make new ones.

Like usual, what I want is not important, what I'm supposed to do that counts.

I know I was drugged but that is still no excuse. Why do they want to do things like that?

Nothing I say is harsh. What I do say is the truth. If people have a problem with that, they need to realize that's on them. That's not on me.

Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.

When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go.

One thing I realized, I was making too many excuses and not taking responsibility for how I was playing.

I think after going through some scandals and realizing that if I'm growing as a person, and I'm acknowledging my mistakes, and I'm constantly bettering myself to be the best me that I can possibly be, what more can I really be?

I remember my first run-in with cops. It took me really getting to hang, well after that, with cops who were cool, and realizing, 'Okay, there are some bad ones.' I ran into some bad ones in Columbus, Ohio, but they're not all bad.

I think what's good is that men are now realizing that life is not a buffet where you just get to pick and choose whatever you want.

Realizing the responsibility I've been entrusted with... it's humbling. Very humbling.

Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.

When I was a kid in the business, you always had in the back of your head this feeling that if I screw up, I might be fired. So you went out every night and tore your rear end up to make sure that you gave the best performance you can and learning constantly because you never had that idea of 'I'm so great, I'm never going to be fired.'

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

No reasonable American believes that someone can investigate their own boss.