Quotes About Accountability

There should be a law, I though. If you support a war, if you think it's worth the price, that's fine, but you he to put your own precious fluids on the line. You have to head for the front and hook up with an infantry unit and help spill the blood. And you have to bring along your wife, or your kids, or your lover. A law, I thought.

when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

There should be a law, I thought. If you support a war, if you think it's worth the price, that's fine, but you have to put your own precious fluids on the line. You have to head for the front and hook up with an infantry unit and help spill the blood. And you have to bring along your wife, or your kids, or your lover. A law, I thought.

In the interests of truth, however, I want to make it clear that Norman Bowker was in no way responsible for what happened to Kiowa. Norman did not experience a failure of nerve that night. He did not freeze up or lose the Silver Star for valor. That part of the story is my own.

There should be a law, I thought. If you support a war, if you think it's worth the price, that's fine, but you have to put your own precious fluids on the line. You have to head for the front and hook up with an infantry unit and help spill the blood.

Cualquiera puede cometer un error, subteniente, pero el error no se convierte en equivocación hasta que el causante se niega a corregirlo.

Anyone can make an error, Ensign. But that error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." He raised a finger—

You were directly responsible for the deaths of four stormtroopers and thirty-two Imperial army troops, Thrawn continued. Also for the destruction of two Chariot command speeders and their crews. I am not the Lord Darth Vader, Ferrier -- I do not spend my men recklessly. Nor do I take their deaths lightly.

I think one should be antagonistic to one's underlings. It keeps them on their toes. ~Soi Fon

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves.

One of his first acts was to challenge the established way of doing business by proposing that the legislators lose part of their salary, and pay a fine, if they didn't get the budget prepared on time. His

Ladies and gentlemen, it is not the job of government to be the national nanny. The average citizen can look after his or her own needs without assistance from somebody who works here in Washington.

The media could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.

We sink ships and try to pretend that they're just ships—things without people in them. It's dishonest, but we do it anyway.

Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.

thing, most deadly of all to those who hold it in their earthly hands. For yourself, you must decide. What sort of leader do you wish to be, and with what other leaders

A bureaucrat who said no to everything rarely got in trouble.

What am I supposed to do about you?

Reporters called down every other profession—medicine, law, politics—for failing to meet a level of professional responsibility which they would allow no one to enforce on themselves, and which they themselves would too rarely enforce on their own. Do as I say, not as I do was something you couldn't say to a six-year-old, but it had become a ready cant for grown-ups. And if it got any worse, then what?

Army instructors are taught that if the student fails to learn, it is because the instructor failed to teach properly.

Dominic took the bait: "If the President breaks the law, then the House of Representatives impeaches him and the Senate convicts him, and he's out on the street

obligations.

Another hour has passed for which I must give an account to Christ." Is your life about Jesus and nothing else? When you may die at any moment, it has to be that way, but we're all called to live only for Him, no matter what.

The fault was lying on its' back...