Quotes About Accountability

You cannot be the leader of the free world and sit on the sidelines and tweet and think you're going to get the job done.

People hide behind fake names to tweet negative comments, and I hate that. If you have something to say, own up to it.

The Modi government's accountability towards the common man can be gauged from the fact that be it Indians trapped overseas, a helpless mother looking for a doctor for her ailing child in a train, or a housewife struggling to get a gas cylinder, help is just a tweet away, with no protocol or red tape intervening.

If you ever plan to run for office, if you're a teenager, remember everything you do, every tweet, every Facebook posting, every picture you put on Instagram will be there forever for journalists and politicians - for your competition to dig up.

You have to help your players understand that when they speak to the media, or when they tweet or text or e-mail, a lot of times, they become public knowledge.

Isn't there a danger with Tweeting, like drunk dialing? Isn't there a drunk Tweeting danger?

I stand behind all my tweets. If I tweeted it and I said it, I am not apologizing for it.

In order to maintain public trust in government, elected officials must answer for what they do and say; this includes 140-character tweets.

You can be tweeting strangers and saying, 'Don't say that,' but are you saying that to your friends? How about your mom? Your boyfriend at the dinner table who says something homophobic? If you're not saying the same things in person that you're saying online, then what are your tweets doing?

People bring up tweets that I don't even remember, and my general response is, 'I don't know if I said it. I probably said it.' It's just part of what I do.

The tweets that I send out are not written by somebody else. They're not vetted through my communications staff.

Our men and women fighting in Iraq are held accountable for their performance and their conduct. On duty and off, twenty-four hours a day. They're fighting for us, for our safety, our rights, and our freedoms.

I never make the same mistake twice. If you catch me slipping one time, good for you, but it ain't gonna happen again.

As a captain, I can't make the same mistake twice. As a player, you can get away with that, but if the captain does that, then it affects the whole team.

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine.

Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.

If a football player has a bad game, he's allowed to do that because he plays once or twice a week. With fighting, it's once every few months.

That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death.

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.

I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.

If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. If the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.

You might want to comment on that, Honorable.

If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.