Quotes About Accountability

You're under tremendous pressure, and everyone needs you to be perfect all the time, and that often creates a perverse incentive to not tell the truth. Please remember - when you get caught not telling the truth, it's over.

The private sector enjoys tremendous freedom in the U.S, as it should. With freedom, however, comes responsibilities.

The trial organized with U.N. participation of some kind will be for crimes committed by Khmer Rouge leaders from 1975 to 1979. That's it.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

We need to keep examining evilness. For instance, I'm totally against the fact that Osama bin Laden was shot. I think that he should have been put on trial and exposed as that human being he was. I think he should've been standing mentally naked in front of the rest of us and stand to justice for what he did.

When people say, 'Why don't you face the music?' I say, 'You have to understand the music is not an open court and a fair trial.'

What kind of signal is Prime Minister Narendra Modi giving by closeting himself with tainted politicians and financial fraud-accused of YSR Congress undergoing trial?

Name your nation-state, or tribe or party - you have to rationalize what you're doing. You have to go to sleep at night. Does Dick Cheney sleep at night? Does he sleep like a baby?

I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.

The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound long-term effect in bringing Germans back to democracy and humanity.

I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

Maybe I could dole out the truth in tiny pieces that, once assembled, would make a picture that resembled a reality in which I hadn't done anything wrong.

Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!

The courage to admit when you're wrong doesn't show weakness. It shows your strength. Your integrity speaks volumes about you as a person.

Being broken is to try break a law

You make a name for yourself when you take on responsibilities and constantly solve problems

Do more than expected, promise less than you can keep.

It's our responsibility to be the best that we can.

Ignoring the evils of our history will only cause them to reoccur.

It is far too late for bloodless hands.

Christians should be good managers and stewards of God's riches

Democrasy comes into grave danger when truth is no longer spoken to power.