Quotes About Accountability

It was not a state secret that I would call on Thackeray. I was not hiding anything.

I'm a big champion of talking about Britain's colonial past but the important thing is not hiding it away and giving a true account of history.

People have high expectations of me, and I want to fulfil them.

Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.

It is high time SoCalGas is held responsible for its actions.

Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions.

When you've got a leader that wants to go out and practice at the ultimate, highest level, when something that you should do doesn't go right, there's going to be a little fire under that, and that's what you need from your leader.

I can't afford to do the highlight dunk and miss it because, if I do that, I'll be sitting right on the bench beside the coaches.

My big problem with Hillary and the Department of State where Benghazi is concerned is there is just no accountability.

The goal isn't, and shouldn't be, to block Hillary Clinton. The goal is to make sure a potential President Clinton is beholden to a better Congress and a better Democratic Party.

Whether you are Hillary Clinton or any other lefty out there, you better beware because Trey Gowdy is out there, and he is going to get you.

when a company (say, General Motors) or a city or state says to its employees that it cannot "afford" to pay pensions, they are engaging in theft and the thieves should be prosecuted

An interesting advantage of restitution is that it does not place you in a moral dilemma with respect to the positive-action and debt-payment principles. You both perform a positive action and you pay your debt. A

TK-421, why aren't you at your post?

The causing of the little ones to offend hangs a fearful woe about the neck of the causer.

Deed, I aye had eneuch adu to du the thing I had to du, no to say the thing 'at naebody wad du but mysel'. I hae had nae leisur' for feelin's an' that, insisted Miss Horn.

That is, we are responsible only for our actions, not for their results. Trust first in God, then in John Day.

As soon as a man begins to make excuses, the time has come when he might be doing that from which he excuses himself.

It is one of the poorest of human weaknesses that a man would be ashamed of saying he has done wrong instead of so ashamed of having done wrong that he cannot rest till he has said so. For the shame cleaves fast until the confession removes it.

For a man to be his own schoolmaster, is a right dangerous position; the pupil cannot be expected to make progress—except, indeed, in the wrong direction.

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, 'In such and such circumstances, what would you do?', whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

I do not understand it. I would not have believed that such things could happen on our farm. It must be due to some fault in ourselves. The solution, as I see it, is to work harder. From now onwards I shall get up a full hour earlier in the mornings.