Quotes About Accountability

As a player, when you get beaten, you can comfort yourself by saying you did reasonably well. As a manager, when you get beaten, you think it's all your fault, but 70,000 people and all those watching on television know it's your fault.

If debtors can reasonably expect that the government will swoop in from time to time to bail them out, no one has any incentive to pay his debts.

The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.

The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.

If the team needs to score, I'm going to score. If the team needs me to rebound, I'm going to rebound. Play defense, I play defense.

We will need to work hard to break the cynicism, talk straight and rebuild trust in politics.

And, as you recall, last year, people were asking us, don't vote on the bill until you read every part of the bill. So, as a good attorney and as a good legislator, I think it's my responsibility to read the amendments.

If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it.

Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.

All schools that receive public funding should be accountable, yes.

While it is important that black women begin to receive the accolades and assistance they are due from the Democratic Party, they cannot be expected to continue to save white people from the poor choices they make - based not on moral values but party affiliation.

When you play quarterback and the offense doesn't play well, a lot of that is because of the quarterback. You're going to receive the criticism.

This is what happened to me when I received the governorship. The corrupt previous governor didn't do the handover. We received the Miranda governorship completely dismantled.

You're out there on an island. It's just you and the best receiver, man-to-man, in one-on-one coverage a lot of the time. And you don't really get any help. If you get beat, everyone can see. If you get scored on, everyone knows. That's the difficulty of playing corner.

I think each guy, whether you're an offensive lineman, receiver, running back, you're focused on your job.

You never want to be on the receiving end of Donald Trump being disappointed in you.

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

If we're going to ask our players to be coachable, we've got to be coachable as coaches as well. That displays an ownership and an accountability that we try to all have and makes the players more receptive to the messages we try to implement.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.

Everybody is likely to make mistakes at times but it's important we learn from it, apologise, recognise where you've gone wrong and keep improving.

What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility.

There's broad recognition that you really have to put the money where people are going to self-manage.