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Quotes About Accountability

Trump is president of the United States. We can't blame our voters. We clearly did something terribly wrong.
~ Tim Ryan
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
~ William E. Gladstone
I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it.
~ Alan Dershowitz
The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.
~ Michael Bloomberg
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
~ Richard M. Nixon
As long as everyone does their part - the attackers score the goals, and the defenders keep the clean sheets - then you can't go too wrong.
~ Trent Alexander-Arnold
Donald began to realize that there was nothing he could do wrong, so he stopped trying to do anything 'right.' He became bolder and more aggressive because he was rarely challenged or held to account by the only person in the world who mattered - his father.
~ Mary L. Trump
I don't care if it was 2 o'clock in the morning after a night game. I had to break down the film by myself before I watched it with the team. I wanted to see everything I did wrong and did right or I wouldn't be able to sleep.
~ Aaron Donald
We must listen to the concerns of our people without dismissing them. When people see something wrong, there is something wrong. When our people see corruption, it means there is corruption. When our people see that their resources are being stolen by certain people, it means this is happening, and we should listen.
~ Cyril Ramaphosa
When you make mistakes, when you're wrong, you should admit you're wrong and ask people to forgive you.
~ John Lewis
I know why I lose fights. If you don't know why you lost a fight or won a fight, you shouldn't be fighting. I know when I do right when I win, and I know what I do wrong when I lose.
~ Quinton Jackson
I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.
~ Philip Yancey
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
~ Ben Horowitz
No officer wants to be involved in a justified use of force proven unnecessary after the fact, any more than soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan wanted to make what proved to be the wrong decision in a shoot-don't-shoot situation. Those decisions, even if justified, live with you forever, believe me.
~ Tom Cotton
Once I started 'Nagaram Nidrapotunna Vela' I had to finish it. I made a wrong decision. I knew the film would be a flop and told the producer so. Everyone failed - director, producer and all.
~ Jagapathi Babu
The mark of a bad leader is not to make the wrong decision. It is to make no decision at all.
~ Barry Gardiner
I don't care what party you belong to or what your background is. If you believe we are headed in the wrong direction, and believe there needs to be a check and balance on the President and Congress, then join my campaign.
~ Tim Griffin
I got married for the wrong reasons. I was tired of being alone. I have to own that. It was me, not her.
~ Steve Harvey
I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.
~ Narendra Modi
If you're quiet, knowing that there's a culture of racism inside most police departments, and you're not saying anything, you are on the wrong side of history.
~ Alicia Garza
I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.
~ Coolio
In years and generations down the line, there's going to be a right and wrong side of history, and I certainly want to be on the right side.
~ Duncan Robinson
We need to stand up to Donald Trump and the Republicans, but we also need to stand up against our own party establishment when it's on the wrong side of an issue.
~ Seth Moulton
We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.
~ Alex Gibney