Quotes About Accountability

I do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people.

It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground, send them all to their maker and he'll settle them down.

It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

The moment we become uncomfortable is the time we should confess.

I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.

Don't blame others when something goes wrong. Don't blame yourself endlessly, either. Just find ways to do it differently next time.

I will have no problem coming to practice on time. The locker room is great, but we have to prove ourselves on the court.

An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.

All I know is that when I come to the ballpark I'm going to be on time and give 100 percent. I know that I have to do that to keep my job.

It is time. You must lead. Ultimately everyone must at some time lead.

I've caught myself a time or two adding or embellishing. I don't think that pleases the Lord. I don't think He needs my dishonesty to convey His gospel.

I have to do this all the time - choosing what to print based on how it might come back to harm people from whom I've earned trust.

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.

Republicans spent too much money, borrowed too much money, earmarked too much. In this race, I'm the only guy who hasn't spent time in Washington.

A good government is one with many information channels, those that give real-time information.

It has become a fashion to declare a package after every crisis. The time has come to pack those who keep giving these packages that don't reach the farmers.

New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

If the reader thinks he is done, now, and that this book has no moral to it, he is in error. The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are no account, go away from home, and then you will *have* to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them - if the people you go among suffer by the operation.

No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.