Quotes About Accountability

We never had a manager. We never had a booking agent. We never had a lawyer. We booked our own tours, paid our own bills, made our own mistakes and never had anybody shield us from either the truth or the consequences.

But know this, if you get killed out there I'm going to fire you.

He was tired of shouldering the weight of other people's bad decisions along with his own.

They wring their hands, should I do this, should I do that. They get seventeen different opinions. Then they do what they planned to do all along. If you give advice, they only blame you when it turns out bad.

There are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods of guilt are many.You don't need to add to them

The citizens want their police to protect them, to keep the plague from their eyes, from their doors. But those same John Q.'s are the first to stare wide-eyed and point the finger of outrage when they see close up exactly what the job they've given the cops entails.

Okay, Harry. We can work cases. But we bend the rules. We don't break them.

It was a stock answer and I noted that going beyond government requirements when there were no such requirements meant nothing.

In his career, he had chased down hundreds of killers and put them in prison. If he was wrong about one, then it would put the lie to everything else. It would cast him adrift.

Think of all the great journalism we've seen in our lifetimes. The corruption exposed, the public benefit. Where's that going to come from now with every paper in the country getting shredded? Our government? No way. TV, the blogs? Forget it. My friend who took the buyout in Florida says corruption will be the new growth industry without the papers watching.

going to lie to the media or anybody

Mounted on the wall beneath the fish was a brass plate. It said: IF I'D KEPT MY MOUTH SHUT I WOULDN'T BE HERE

Bosch liked short prosecutors. They were always trying to make up for something and usually it was the defendant who ended up paying the price.

corruption will be the new growth industry without the papers watching.

government, a bureaucracy, a business. When there are no rules then corruption sets in like rust.

this kid his asshole, then that's the cost. But

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.

His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success--or the most to lose from failure.

The Japanese have a saying: fix the problem, not the blame. In American organizations it's all about who fucked up. Whose head will roll. In Japanese organizations it's about what's fucked up, and how to fix it. Nobody gets blamed. Their way is better.

You've had plenty of engineering delays,' Hammond said. 'Don't blame it on the animals.

Presidents and generals and all the important people in position to make the most important decisions are, by and large, the least equipped for making them.

You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice.

If they were all concerned, why didn't they do something about it? But of course that's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late. We put the stoplight at the intersection after the kid is killed