Quotes About Accountability

Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.

I have fear of the audience and I am responsible for the scenes involving me, be it as a comedian or hero.

Bob Levinson was in Iran serving his government, and Bob Levinson was not well served by his government.

Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future... They have got to step up.

Anonymity breeds irresponsibility.

The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.

I take accountability for being dumb and irresponsible.

I've been irresponsible many, many, many times and that has resulted in my being fat.

You are given certain skills, and if you don't use them effectively, you are being irresponsible.

If I just point out the fact that black people hurt each other, too, then we can ignore the fact that other people harm black people. I think it's an irresponsible argument.

I personally do not believe I'm irresponsible.

To simply argue that public spending must always go up and never be cut is irresponsible.

If you are irresponsible as a parent and don't know what your kids are watching, that's your problem. It's not the creator's duty to create every show in a way that a six-year-old can watch it.

There are bad dudes. There are also irresponsible women.

I'm not irresponsible at all. That's totally removed from the truth.

The IRS should and must focus on the most important and most egregious and the most in need.

There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook.

George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'

No Israeli leader is a king.

Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue.

I don't just issue instructions. I follow up to see if they have been obeyed.

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.