Quotes About Accountability

When I have failed as an actor I've always thought it was my fault. But when I direct something, I wouldn't want the actors to think it was their fault.

I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.

We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance.

We've learned that Donald Trump can say whatever he wants and switch it a minute later, and nobody really cares.

I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do affects a lot of people.

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

Look at Donald Trump: He loves to call out individual reporters by name, which leads to major problems in those reporters' lives. I certainly don't want to add to that myself.

The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don't agree with them.

Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.

If you're white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself?

Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

An actor cannot say no, it's against his job. If he wants the part he has to say yes. [But] it's very bad for you to say you can do something and then not do it, so you have to manage to do it.

Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?

And I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do for the people of the United States.

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service

We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!

Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing.

When you get great stuff to do, you just don't want to let anybody down.

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

If not us, who? And if not now, when?

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.