Quotes About Accountability

In contrast to what most prosecutors do, we try to treat all individuals with complete fairness. We do not go out and hold press conferences and the like.

If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat the customers honestly; don't lie and don't cheat,' it is somewhat hypocritical if you're not following the same rules.

Democracy needs to be nurtured and treated with care.

You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve.

People tend to take more risks in groups than alone. For these reasons, the law has always treated conspiracy harshly.

If you're buying animal products and can go to the farm and actually see how the animals are looked after, yes, that's an important point. That's definitely the best way of assuring yourself that the animals are being well treated.

Washington politicians should not be treated any differently than any other American. That's what people are fed up with.

Why should guns be treated different than toasters? If your defective product injures somebody, you're responsible for it.

Stepping back, just being in my little Stoicism Susan bubble, if what people know you for is bringing light to an issue about bad behavior, about bad stuff going on and laws not being followed and people being treated inappropriately, why wouldn't I want that? That's a badge of honor.

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

Tax dollars are not politicians' personal wallets, and they should stop treating them as such.

The more Gov. Andrew Cuomo gets away with treating New York badly, the crueler he is.

There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.

I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.

In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don't want to throw hand grenades at people who do something that's pretty similar to what I do. But at the same time, we all need to take ourselves seriously and be responsible as professionals. And there was a collective failure in the treatment of Christopher Jefferies.

It's time for some equal-opportunity accountability. Without it, the fight against media misogyny will continue to be perceived as a proxy war for the Democratic Party, not a fight for fair treatment of women in the public square.

I wouldn't say I give the hairdryer treatment but when we've not performed well you have to make people aware.

Frankly, as secretary of state, if somebody treats you badly because you're a woman, it's your fault - not theirs.

If we do not elect a national legislature that will hold Obama accountable, he and his radical cohorts will destroy the tree of liberty. Just mark my words.

Officers are not fruit. I can't pick them off a tree.

The bureaucrats tremble because they don't perform. In the past nobody checked their work. Now that I do it they are scared.

Law enforcement officers are entrusted with a tremendous responsibility; that is why we hold them to such a high standard. With that said, there are a small number of officers who have not lived up to that standard.

I feel a tremendous responsibility to my crew, to my cast, to every guest star that comes on.

We Germans have a special responsibility to be alert, sensitive, and aware of what we did during the Nazi era and about lasting damage caused in other countries. I've got tremendous sympathy for that.