Quotes About Accountability

I have a 'pillow test' - can I go to bed tonight knowing that I did my best today? If I can, I'm happy.

What I hope is if you turn on the news tonight, I want to find a way to stop all this corruption I see.

I'm not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight.

Frank Sinatra did 'Born Free', Tony Bennett did 'Walkabout,' but you have no control over who does what, really. So you just hold yourself responsible for the stuff you do, and then get filthy rich on all this stuff that other people have done.

When Tony Abbott was prime minister, I could get straight answers. I didn't always like what he had to say, but he stuck to it.

One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in 'Line of Duty' was that I don't think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation.

Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid.

Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.

Beginning with the Clinton Administration and rapidly accelerating with the George W. Bush and Obama regimes and Tony Blair in England, the U.S. and U.K. governments have run roughshod over their accountability to law.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges.

I deeply apologize to the customer forcibly removed and to all the customers aboard. No one should ever be mistreated this way. I want you to know that we take full responsibility, and we will work to make it right. It's never too late to do the right thing.

I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do.

So many girls and boys are looking up to me, and I have to conduct myself in a way that I don't disappoint too many people and I don't generate any kind of hate or propaganda for any reason. And I think we all should do that.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others.

I believe that if a person has four DUIs, I think they've had enough bites at the apple, and I think that when you go beyond that, I think that's a little bit too much.

If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words.

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed.

I think if you don't give people the tools and the expectations for success, and yet hold them to some value, then you're difficult to work with.