Quotes About Accountability

If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money.

A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.

I've learned that, in many cases, people say, 'I want ground truth,' and they don't really mean it. There are warts all over this organization, as there are in many organizations, but you just have to tell truth to power and let the chips fall where they may.

Of course I have to clean my room and sometimes wash the dishes. And do a lot of other cleaning because my brothers, they leave a mess. But me too, me too. I have to admit I'm guilty of that, too.

Respectability in this country was a bad word because people did things who were in respected professions that let down the entire nation, and we're washing away their sins yet.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.

There's a coalition of folks here in Georgia who want representation that's focused on local economic development and on accountability and not on the partisan circus in Washington.

Bringing accountability to Washington has been an important part of my time in office and an important part of my campaign.

I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.

We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.

You won't like hearing this, but sometimes you can't fix what you broke. Sometimes you just have to live with it.

How was the wolf to blame, if the sheep were roaming free?

And neither do you deserve all the blame. Sometimes everyone does their best and things still end up wrong.

How was the wolf to blame you if the sheep were roaming free?

You, too, did what was easiest. Don't let that be all you do.

That's what bitter people did. Pointed the finger and blamed others. Obfuscation was a way of hiding from their own shortcomings and wounds.

We warned you, Colette. You fucked around—and you found out.

Sweep everything under the rug for long enough, and you have to move right out of the house.

A man has to accept responsibility for his life, no matter how hard it gets. That's what sets him apart from animals.

In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.

they will naturally focus only on dealing with a few scapegoats, not just because the system is harder to change, but also because if politicians traced the fault lines, they would find a few running through themselves.

Should the Governor disappear from public view and not speak for fear of misinterpretation, or should he take the risk in order to discharge his responsibilities?