Quotes About Accountability

If we start attacking advertisers because of what somebody said - it's the wrong thing to do.

Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing?

If you go into a shopping centre, there are phones and cameras everywhere, and if you're doing the wrong thing, ultimately you're going to get found out. So it's important you're living your life right, and that's hard for a young player.

I saw firsthand what focusing on the wrong things, elevating the wrong people can do - the collateral damage that can be created by allowing somebody to live their lives without accountability.

Nobody can negate the fact that there is a section - not only in media but in every field - which indulge in wrong things.

Yes, sometimes I have done some wrong things and I'm not an angel.

I hope people will see how harmful words are and how irresponsible we can be when saying the wrong things at the wrong time to certain people.

I call a spade a spade. If you're doing things the wrong way, I'm going to let you know regardless if you're the max-contract guy on the team or the two-way guy on the team.

In Orlando, I handled a lot of stuff the wrong way.

If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.

I am aware that if I do become the president, I, too, could be processed for any political wrongdoing.

At D.O.J., we don't want to go after the corporate wrongdoers simply as an end unto itself; we want to decrease the amount of corporate wrongdoing that happens in the first place. We want to restore and help protect the corporate culture of responsibility.

It's a bit embarrassing for a company to be exposed for wrongdoing, but it's really embarrassing if it's done by making them the butt of a joke.

Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn't ideological; it's good law enforcement.

People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable for wrongdoing - at least sometimes - without any actual political or legal reforms having taken place. Major political power struggles and scandals are no longer kept within elite circles.

In any given day, our administration has about 2 million employees, and things happen. We put in process procedures to make sure if there has been any wrongdoing, there will be appropriate consequences, and we will move on.

Americans can tolerate some secrecy, particularly when it is rooted in protection of the public's interests. But when the claims appear to hide wrongdoing, they begin to curdle.

In the rare cases where our servicemen and women violate laws and norms, they are held to account. The United States military justice system is far more effective at holding Americans accountable for alleged wrongdoing than the ICC has ever been.

One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.

Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

It doesn't matter if I've been wronged - I still have a responsibility to use my influence in a way that never causes harm.