Quotes About Accountability

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

If the hour comes, and there's no-one to beg or blame but yourself, you learn that what we have in the end is just a handful more than what was born in us. That unique handful, what we add to what we are, is the only story of us that isn't told by someone else.

If the hour comes, and there's no one to beg or blame but yourself, you learn that what we have in the end is just a handful more than what was born in us. That unique handful is the only story of us that isn't told by someone else

The work had fallen to me, it seemed, because I knew a little more than the next man, and I was willing to do it.

he'd been able to deal with that pain because he'd accepted his own part in causing it

I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.

The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

I do think we can be honest and upfront that certain organizations haven't gotten the job done. That's the approach we took in Boston. We identified certain things that we hadn't been doing well, that might have gotten in the way of a World Series, and eradicated them.

I feel that if I absolve myself and say it was the Astros' fault I was bad in Game 7, in the World Series, I can't develop as a person.

What countries must do to join the World Trade Organization is precisely what they must do to become productive and democratic: accept the rule of law, reduce corruption, and become open, accountable, and transparent.

What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

If you play at a world-class team like Chelsea, you have to perform every day.

If you have any ambitions to improve and be a world-class side, you have to be very tough on yourselves.

I don't think anybody in the entertainment industry or in politics is surprised by the fact that those worlds are rife with promiscuity and irresponsibility - certainly a lack of accountability.

In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't.

I have to stay on top of myself with honesty and be very forthcoming, quickly admit when I'm wrong, you know? I have a whole system that works for me, and that's part of my worldview now.

We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

Poor quality of representatives... is not a purely Australian phenomenon - it's a worldwide phenomenon.

All I've done is my job, and I intend to continue doing it. And I'm not especially worried about the criticism that comes from the bench.

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.

When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: 'Don't you feel pressure on you?' I said: 'Want to know something? I'm worried about the guy who's going to have to replace me.'

I'm not worried about what people do in their private life. I look out for taxpayers' money.