Quotes About Accountability

I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.

there's three sides to every story: yours, mine, and the truth. I can only give you mine.

Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force. ELAINE MAXWELL

Whenever you have a job to do ask yourself two questions. If not now, when? If not by me, by whom?

As humans, our tendency is to play victim. And unless you're watchful, it will sneak up on you and you'll start blaming outside forces—parents, spouses, bosses, the weather, the government, circumstances, "the Man," whomever—for your problems. In reality, we are not victims. We're agents. We are the creative forces of our lives, and we are free to choose. But we have to be reminded of this all the time.

las personas no tienen claro el objetivo, no están comprometidas con él, no saben qué tareas específicas les corresponden y no hay rendición de cuentas para supervisar que todos cumplan con sus responsabilidades.

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

Don't tell me it wasn't my fault; that's no damn good to me. Just tell me how to keep from going crazy, will you? Just tell me how to survive.

I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history.

The executed men were cursed, and praised, and doubted, and despised, and held to account, and blackened, and wondered at, and mourned, all in a confusion complicated infinitely by the site of war.

That's probably the most ridiculous sentence that a man like you could come out with. You always had a choice. You just weren't brave enough to pay the price for your decisions

We always blame others. Or we blame the circumstances. But in reality there is only one person who can finish us off. Only one person has the power to completely destroy us, if we let them. And that is ourselves

Los ahuyentó, ni siquiera los expulsó, pues ya ante el primer indicio de amenaza y espanto todos, empezando por el káiser, desaparecieron sin hacer el más mínimo ruido ni dejar el menor rastro, más o menos como, más adelante, entre 1932 y 1933, lo harían los dirigentes de la República. Los políticos alemanes, empezando por los de derechas hasta llegar a los de izquierdas, tienen muy mal perder.

swis bank & banks like this must be done away with to put an end to plundering of poor nations. the account holders should be hanged.

The American people deserve to know that they're not just watching the administration's spin on their local newscasts -- they're paying for it, too.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman

Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.

Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est. Translated: A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Las cosas desagradables de este mundo no pueden eliminarse con mirar sencillamente hacia otra parte.