Quotes About Accountability

Personal responsibility is better than any government order.

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions. But there is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.

Personal responsibility matters.

While we have to take personal responsibility for our actions, I have a great deal of empathy for people who are unconsciously racially biased, and indeed count myself among their number.

I think we all need to take personal responsibility, and take action when we see anything wrong around us. I do that, when I see any man harassing any woman. I go and stop that, even if they are actors.

As coaches, whether we're making personnel decisions or not, we're all critical of ourselves. We always want to get better. We push our players to do that. But nobody bats 1.000.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.

People buy a cat and think, 'Oh that's a beautiful collar. I'll put that on,' but that doesn't make them a responsible pet owner.

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

There is no doubt that there is a very strange phenomenon called the 'State Comptroller.'

It doesn't matter whether you're guilty or not in Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines.

I think it's a flawed philosophy to believe impunity when it's inappropriate.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

We live in the new world where camera phones are everywhere, and you have to be on your best behavior at all times.

You couldn't get away with anything at City because there were always photographers everywhere.

A lot of actors do that - they blame their failure on their agents or their photos. But that is just putting off the real issues.

The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?'

You're no longer the engineer or the physicist or the writer - you're the whistleblower.

It would not be right for me to pick and choose where, when, and in what format I play for the Proteas.

A leader can't pick and choose when he wants to lead.

I have to back myself and think if I'm big enough to be picked by Everton and exposed in that situation, then I'm old enough to take whatever comes with it. That's the way I kind of see it.

I want to try and stay in the game and maybe have that responsibility: picking teams, telling players they're dropped. It's something that I might enjoy.

My job, if someone picks me, is to come and perform. That's what we do for a living.