Quotes About Accountability

I challenge you to be finished with rationalizations and hypocrisy.

Men act like men at home when they realize they will be held responsible for how well they represented God to their family.

I guess I've never had anyone expect anything of me before. I feel so overwhelmed at the possibility of letting these men down

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what is will be tomorrow

It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be to-morrow.

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

A man isn't as good as his word, he's as good as his Actions.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Today, at least $11.7 billion of the approximately $20 billion the CPA ordered sent to Iraq from New York is either unaccounted for or has simply disappeared.

That's what I think more and more. There's nothing. No God, no Devil, nothing. No damnation, no redemption. There's just us and what we do. The things we achieve or the mess we make.

No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu,An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu.

Ef you take a sword an' dror it, An' go stick a feller thru, Guv'ment ain't to answer for it, God'll send the bill to you.

Democracy has a habit of making itself generally disagreeable by asking the powers-that-be at the most inconvenient moment whether they are the powers-that-ought-to-be

We're professionals. People make deals, they need to stick to them. That's the way it works, if it's going to work at all.

We can make up for our actions. But for our inactions, what we fail to do ...

The biggest center of attention needs to be the Secretaries of State. They're the ones that manage the elections. At the end of the day, they're the ones that need to be held accountable.

There has been a failure in moral courage by the technologically astute to step in and lead, selflessly. There's always a product pitch at the end of whitepapers. We need to remove the product pitches and replace it with objective and viable action steps

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

file. "James Miller. We'll need to determine if he is corrupt, or merely the unwitting tool of others.

throw up his hands and say, 'Who, me? I had nothing to do with it.'

By declaring complete responsibility for being in your cocoon, and total responsibility for leaving. We become trapped when we avoid taking responsibility for the conditions in our lives. We're trapped further by blaming others for lack of fulfillment, success, and happiness.

Johnson insisted, "I don't want this symposium to come here and spend two days talking about what we have done, the progress has been much too small. We haven't done nearly enough. I'm kind of ashamed of myself that I had six years and couldn't do more than I did.

be a wrong to me; and much worse, a wrong to the country." The standards