Quotes About Accountability

Hillary Clinton wants to run on the historic nature of her candidacy. I will force her to run on accountability for the Clinton way.

Because I hold an Israeli passport, I have a share in all the wrongs that are done to the Palestinians. . . . I want to be able to say that I did all I could to prevent the bloodshed.

There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don't need a new law.

People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

WikiLeaks serves as a back-up for those who want to tell the truth about the inner workings of government when the mainstream media is not willing or taking too long to publish.

When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.

What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.

There are cases in which somebody has demonstrated just such an outrageous disregard for the bounds of an acceptable decision that you want a measure of accountability.

Today in coaching, it's a two-way street. They can fire you whenever they want. Bottom line: It's all about what you can do to better yourself professionally. This is a better move.

No doubt, there are times when I'm like "We have all gotten really used to saying whatever the f - k we want to say," and it's something that I really take seriously, whatever that may be.

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.

The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught.

Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.

I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.

The public wants to know why or why not. They don't want to know how you're going to do it.

Take a thousand soldiers. Four hundred will stand in a fight but do nothing. Two hundred will run given the chance. Another hundred will get confused. That leaves three hundred you can count on. Your task in commanding that thousand is all down to knowing where to put that three hundred.

Civilizations in decline are notable when certain of their members escape justice, and do so with impunity.

Mother Dark had turned away. She had left them to fates of their own devising, and in so doing, she had taken away their privilege of blaming someone else.

Evading responsibility was a proclivity of the human species, it seemed.

Look, Tammy, it's part of our mandate. We barrel in, we fuck things up, and then we walk away feeling good about our selves.

A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.

But Arrow believes they took these names so they could separate themselves from what they had to do, so the person who fought and killed could someday be put away.