Quotes About Accountability

How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

I don't know if there is redemption for people like Charlie Rose or Garrison Keillor. An apology helps, but what really matter are deeds.

Redemption happens in many forms. It happens when one takes responsibility even when one need not.

And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.

We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people.

Harry Reid and the Senate haven't passed a budget. Their pay should be reduced until they do.

No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.

Ensuring guns are out of the reach of children and holding those accountable who are irresponsible is the first step in reducing firearm accidents.

I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.

You should always play 100 per cent, and you shouldn't expect every decision from the referee.

'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

At some point you've got to get to yourself and say, 'Wait a minute, I've been handed this legacy but I have to become accountable so I don't hand a lot of it on to my children.'

But if I had to do it, handle money, then I think I could be responsible, yes.

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.

It's about how you handle yourself, how you take care of your business, how you present yourself in front of the team, how you hold other people accountable. And ultimately, performing.

Every guy is a little different, how you talk to him, how you handle him and hold him accountable, every guy is a little different.

Maybe the law don't always handle things, but that doesn't mean things don't get handled.

I'm a guy that a lot of people look up to. I haven't always handled situations the right way. That's why I have to continue to grow and be a better player, a better leader.

I was a young player, young star in this league. I probably wasn't handling the responsibility the way I should.

The reality is even if you are a hands-on Mayor or Governor or chief executive, at best, you must know about 10 or 20% of what's going on. Otherwise, you never get through the day... I was very hands on, and there's lots of stuff I didn't know, and lots of things that either went wrong or right that I would find out about afterwards.

An excuse is the handy explanation we offer when we disappoint other people.

When I don't have a girlfriend, who I am answerable to, I can go out and hang with people. But whether you go for a movie with someone or a meal or a drive, it is assumed that you are dating that person.

I don't hang with polluters; I prosecute them.

I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal.