Quotes About Accountability

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.

But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.

We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.

Democracy, of course, requires strong demands from the public.

We need to have much clearer regulations on things like corporate funding of scientific research. Things need to be made explicit which are implicit.

I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.

In the past, Federal Reserve chairmen have not generally gone directly to the public.

The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.

First-past-the-post builds a direct relationship between a community and their MP. Residents come together to decide who most people want as their national representative. No one has more than one vote and it has to be cast responsibly.

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.

It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable.

For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.

Michael Flynn was forced to resign, we are told, because he told a big lie. But what about the little ones?

To resign from the front bench is not a decision to be taken lightly.

If National Security Agency (NSA) heads fundamentally lack an understanding of what constitutes constitutionally protected communications, or worse, chose to disregard those directives, then it's time for the appropriate heads of these agencies to resign.

When I was younger I was a nightmare. I let people down. I resigned from Sheffield United because things were promised to me that weren't forthcoming. I let people down when I was younger, certainly in management.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

That's what I'm paid to do, is kind of shut down my side of the field and open up plays for other guys at times.

Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.

I don't want to shut down government.

Most of the world genuinely believes that I was the owner of 8chan and that I could shut it down whenever I wanted.