Quotes About Accountability

I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way.

Obama hasn't lost his standing because of tricks played by the Republicans. He hasn't lost his standing because the media's not fair to him. He hasn't lost his standing or his approval number because the media spent four years attacking him like they did George W. Bush. This is all on him.

There are those moments when you know that you are up against a tricky customer who is not being forthright with the truth, and there is no way you're going to let them off the hook.

Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

What I've always tried to do is undersell and overdeliver.

I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.

At the end of the day, if someone tries to conceal something they will, and when you find out, you deal with it. That's it. We can't possibly know everything that happens.

A good executive, when things aren't going well, gets down and finds out what's going wrong and tries to fix it.

We can and must turn this around. If you're going to kill someone just pull the trigger.

I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.

Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got.

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

Among other things, Marching Band forms state that if my kid starts acting like a li'l jerkface on a trip, Marching Band can call and command me to pick up my li'l jerkface.

Whether you like it or not, a performance's triumphs and belly flops come to seem excruciatingly intimate, as if you were somehow partly responsible for them.

I want politicians to be held to account for their politics and their principles, or lack of them, but I find it irritating that we have a culture where people are more interested in trivial gossip than substantive matters.

You don't eat before your troops eat, and you don't ask your troops to do anything you won't do, too.

We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.

It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the best possible support for all our troops.

We have sent our troops to war without paying for it. Now, we are bringing them home without saying how we are paying for it.

Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.

The role of Premier is not one that should be taken lightly, nor is it a personal trophy.

You become a leader in times of trouble. Leaders emerge when things don't go well. When everyone else starts pointing fingers, a leader takes responsibility.

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.