Quotes About Accountability

I can't go back and change how many tackles I had, how many picks. What I've done is what I've done.

There's a lot of talk coming from Citigroup about how Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. Let me say this to anyone who is listening at Citi: I agree with you. Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. It should have broken you into pieces.

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

As Trump's mistakes pile up, Congress will be left on cleanup detail.

The president can violate the law, and when he does, he is supposed to be held accountable. That is supposed to be one of the pillars of our democracy.

One of the core pillars of the modern American conservative movement is its emphasis on personal responsibility.

If crimes are committed, they are committed by people; they are not committed by some free-floating entity. These companies and other entities don't operate on automatic pilot. There are individuals that make decisions - and some make the right decisions, and some make the wrong decisions.

When I see someone who has responsibilities, most of the time I can pinpoint that person because of the way he carries himself.

I was always taught if you do something, face the piper. Try to make it right.

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.

I've said some things that are a little bit off the wall, but I don't run away and hide from them.

Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!

I think that the S.E.C. has been pretty feckless when it comes to reigning in reckless behavior on Wall Street.

Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.

We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees in 2008.

We can't expect Wall Street to police itself - that's why we have a federal government.

On Wall Street, the industry in which I grew up, a culture in which 'my word is my bond' shifted over the past few decades toward one where the big print can say 'Free' while the small print gives the real costs.

In a world where distrust of Wall Street has never been higher, we're holding ourselves to a different standard. We also know that if we don't stay really genuine to that, it's very easy for this to sound incredibly disingenuous.

My position is if you double vote, we will find you and it will be a heavy hit to the wallet.

Given the state of English schools in the 1970s, a national curriculum, Ofsted, regular testing, publication of performance results, have all helped to raise standards by shining a light into the walled garden and letting parents know what is going on inside the school walls.

If we wander around as politicians jumping at every shadow and desperately afraid of having our words taken out of context or attacks layered on in an unfair way, I think we're actually doing a disrespect to Canadians, to people's intelligence.

I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you.