Quotes About Accountability

We were asked to do very little, and we responded. That's the bargain we tacitly make with our presidents: we won't ask too much of you, if you don't ask too much of us.

Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.

No one is responsible, nobody is to blame... Either all are guilty or none...

The English poet Alexander Pope said, "An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

When You Cease To Exist, Then Who Will You Blame?

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his [and her] freedom.

I don't expect politicians to solve anybody's problems. We've got to take the world by the horns and solve our own problems. The world owes us nothing, each and every one of us, the world owes us not one single thing. Politicians or whoever.

Chase realized that when someone he was drinking with was telling him that he was drinking too much and that he needed to get his act together, then he was bellying out on the bottom.

You always have a choice. It's just that you have to pay the price that goes along with your choice.

Trump is the wrong man for the job.

And is there anybody in charge at the White House who was doing anything but kissing his fat butt all over this?

I guess you're right," Trump said several times. "We could do that." But then he ignored most reviews or vetting and did what he wanted.

Trump was a guy who "never went to class. Never got the syllabus.

Today's internet bloggers and television's talking heads don't have that [a partnership]. No safety net. No brakes. No one there to question, doubt or inspire. No editor. [Carl Bernstein's A reporter's assessment]

the vice president was a counting clerk, period.

He's 71. He's not going to admit he's wrong, ever.

Trump listens to you. He's always looking for adult supervision.

It's not what we did for the country," Cohn said. "It's what we saved him from doing.

But how many more deaths?" Trump asked. "How many more lost limbs? How much longer are we going to be there?

Trump seemed not to remember his own decision because he did not ask about it. He had no list—in his mind or anywhere else—of tasks to complete.

talking in elegant paragraphs. He also had a

Should I resign?" he asked Colin Powell, who had been the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993 under President George H. W. Bush. "Fuck no!" Powell said. "I told you never to take the job. You never should have taken the job. Trump's a fucking maniac.

Bob Woodward