Quotes About Accountability

All of this is to buy the loyalty of the thumb-suckers, whiners, and social experimenters who refuse to produce, refuse to compete, and reject any notion of personal accountability.

No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.

Et puis s'accuser tous azimuts, on se met à l'abri de bien des exigences. (p.116)

Nous y tournons en rond, généralement plus soucieux de chercher des coupables que de trouver des solutions.

Le nostre ragioni di leggere sono strane quanto le nostre ragioni di vivere. E nessuno è autorizzato a chiederci conto di questa intimità.

Autonomy isn't the opposite of accountability - it's the pathway to it.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

the cardinal rule when it comes to assassinations. It's not important who fires the shot. It's who pays for the bullet.

Our mistakes always come back to haunt us. And eventually all debts come due.

lo que importa no es quien dispara, sino quien paga la bala.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people. January 1830

Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

The World Ain't No Day-care Center.

Before all that long, you start telling those near to you that you went on interviews that turned out sorry when factually you never even made the phone call.

With authority comes responsibility.

By spending years and years living entirely for yourself, thinking only about yourself, and having responsibility to no one but yourself, you end up inadvertently extending the introverted existence of a teenager deep into middle age.

Maybe intentions are the lies in the dark we tell ourselves when who we are falls short of the mark and when we destroy our neighbor we can say 'I never meant any harm.'

Like serial killers and three of the worst men I ever dated, I never really had a grasp on what I was supposed to feel sorry about. Week after week, I filled the confessional with lies. I yelled at my teacher. I stole my best friend's favorite toy. I kicked a dog. I punched my brother in the nuts.

Blame is a lazy man's wages.

God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

Un pays n'est jamais corrompu, ce sont ses dirigeants qui peuvent l'être.