Quotes About Accountability

If any of us were faced with a huge bag of free money and very little accountability, it would be human nature that you would make the most of it.

There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.

All those who talk about democracy, freedom, and the rule of law, of human rights, of the fight against corruption are, I believe, important allies.

Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.

We must be humble and listen to the people who elected us to lead.

The fact is I don't even have one cent of savings abroad, don't have accounts at foreign banks, don't have deposits abroad and don't even have any shares in foreign firms, much less hundreds of billions of dollars.

I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

People need to understand: Businesses are going to make mistakes. They shouldn't be shot and hung every time.

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.

Evil is done by oneself alone; By oneself is one defiled. Evil is avoided by oneself; By oneself alone is one purified. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; No one can purify another.

We do not feel ourselves outside of our time but continue to undergo shameful compromises with it. This feeling of shame is one of philosophy's more powerful motifs. We are not responsible for the victims but responsible before them.

Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet.

My mother had always told her kids: If you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

If you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

You are turning me into what I never have been and never wanted to be, a nag, because you are not living up to your end of a very basic contract. Don't do that, it's not okay to do.

You have to admit you're a jerk and that everything was all your fault." "So, like, what men are supposed to do in general," I said.

I'd been good about booze for six months, but nothing counted here.

We're on your side, but we need the truth. The only thing that makes you look bad is you holding out on us.

Oops, we didn't fire nearly enough people

I blamed the whole mess on Charles Dickens.

Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it,' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline

I am responsible only to myself and my God. Only I know what I did of my own free will. And for that I can answer to my God. What I did without, or against my free will, for that I need not answer.…

I have never intentionally hurt anyone, myself," he said, with a different, less incisive emphasis, and waited again – for a long time. For the first time, in all these many days, I had given him no help. There was no more time. He gripped the table with both hands as if he was holding on to it. "But I was there," he said then, in a curiously dry and tired tone of resignation. These few sentences had taken almost half an hour to pronounce. "So yes

A guy I worked with and I talked it over about what you do with drunks. His dad was a reformed drunk. He told me you got to stop trying to help them out. You got to stop making excuses for them and not take excuses from them. You got to put them on a spot where they can't do nothing but face the truth because they aren't going to change a bit till they decide to do it. They got to be the ones who believe they've turned into dregs and something has got to be changed.