Quotes About Accountability

How can government reduce the frequency and the severity of future catastrophes? Companies that have the potential to create significant harm must be required to pay for the costs they inflict, either before or after the fact. Economists agree on this general approach. The problem is in putting such a policy into effect.

I don't see the point in signing on to do something and then leaving.

There is a lot of extra responsibility on you as a player from the academy. You're expected to play and act as a signing, which is pressure, but in a way it pushes you to get a better performance out of yourself.

A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on helping people at 5 o'clock, because it comes from the heart, not from a badge or a mandate.

Whether someone signs something is not what's important. It's what they do and how they do it that matters.

You don't want to be somebody that signs a deal and kind of shuts it down, that's not going to be me at all.

History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.

Silence is complicity. I believe that.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

If India is notorious for never punishing scamsters and letting politicians get away with loot, rape, murder and worse, it is because they are part of a cozy conspiracy of silence. There are innumerable instances of how politicians as a class let each other off the hook after kicking up some dust in parliament.

I never authorized any payments for someone to be silent. I did not buy anyone's silence.

Going through games, making silly mistakes, you'll need the manager to tell each individual what they are doing wrong.

Politicians can talk and talk and talk until they're silly, and they do nothing.

I'm not silly enough to not understand that if you lose 10 games in a row, very rarely are you safe in a job.

After our life history was shown on the silver screen and much appreciated by the audiences, I have more of a responsibility on my shoulders now.

Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.

The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?

I am a simple person, I try to do my best on the pitch and do nothing wrong both on and off the pitch.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

The difference between explaining behavior and excusing it is captured in the saying To understand is not to forgive.

We're all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day 4) We are committed over the long haul 5) The stakes for us are high and real 6) We accept remuneration for our labor 7) We do not overidentify with our jobs 8 ) We master the technique of our jobs 9) We have a sense of humor about our jobs 10) We receive praise or blame in the real world

Casting yourself as a victim is the antithesis of doing your work. Don't do it. If you're doing it, stop.

How do we make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare? How do we make the taking of long-term responsibility inevitable?

selfishness, or a desire to avoid responsibility.