Quotes About Accountability

You can avoid reality but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Vosotros, que carecéis de normas de estima propia, aceptáis la culpa y no os atrevéis a formular preguntas.

A man can't get sick just because he oughta.

el castigo es producto de los propios errores

If this is what has beaten us, he thought, the guilt is ours.

Est-ce que nous considérons que tout est acceptable, que nous n'avons aucune responsabilité envers les autres, que seule compte la satisfaction de nos besoin?

To be a victim is to abdicate responsibility, to in effect give up most of all on yourself.

Was it any consolation, and did we even wish to remember, that what he did to us was what we allowed him to do?

quoting Cary Grant) A word, like a lost opportunity, cannot be taken back once it hass been uttered.

What Washington Needs is Adult Supervision.

To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

A healthy, dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It's what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion.

Di Indonesia, kekuasaan diperlihatkan secara terang-terangan, tidak pandang bulu, terbuka, selalu segar dalam ingatan.

Look at yourself before you pass judgment. Don't make someone else clean up your mess.

Getting things done meant subjecting yourself to criticism, and the alternative—playing it safe, avoiding controversy, following the polls—was not only a recipe for mediocrity but a betrayal of the hopes of those citizens who'd put you in office.

We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.

Everything is organized. If something is broken, I fix it. If something goes wrong, it's my own fault. If I have it, I send money to the family, and they can do with it what they want, and I won't depend on them, and they won't depend on me.

As much as Tim blamed himself during the next morning's postmortem, I recognized it as a systems failure

Our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman. It has always been up to us.

If I say I will do something, I must do it. Otherwise, how will people know that my word is true?

I would be able to articulate a vision and set a direction for the country; promote a healthy organizational culture and establish clear lines of responsibility and measures of accountability. I would be the one who made the final decisions on issues that rose to my attention and who explained those decisions to

Solo hay una cosa que puede dar por segura, señor presidente —me dijo—. Cualquier día, en cualquier momento dado, alguien, en algún lugar, la está cagando.»

As much as Tim blamed himself during the next morning's postmortem, I recognized it as a systems failure—and a failure on my part to put those who worked under me in a position to succeed.

whenever I write a letter to a family who has lost a loved one in Iraq, or read an email from a constituent who has dropped out of college because her student aid has been cut, I'm reminded that the actions of those in power have enormous consequences—a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.