Quotes About Accountability

we have to bear the result of our own actions because we attach ourselves to them. ...

I think politicians nationwide have earned a reputation sometimes that is very unfavorable because they will say things and then do something else when they get into office.

The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.

Together, we can create something new, something bold, and something to act as a check and balance to Washington's out-of-touch agenda.

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Sometimes I had too many beers.

Sometimes there's just no room for apologies.

I express myself the way I want. Sometimes, I know, I do put up posts that might be insensitive, but I am not someone who deletes a post. If my posts end up hurting people, I don't have any qualms apologising, and I have done that in the past.

I find politicians globally are somewhat disappointing, not just in Ireland.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'

If you make a mistake at work, address it as soon as possible - don't hide it.

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

The Reeves Nelson debacle, that hurt me. There are certain things regarding him that I couldn't say then and still can't. But I should have pulled the plug on him after his sophomore year. We tried to make it work, but we couldn't make it happen.

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.

The easiest thing to say is, 'I'm sorry.' We don't do that.

In our private lives, we hate saying sorry. I would rather saute my eyeballs in butter than admit I am wrong to my husband.

When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught.