Quotes About Accountability

The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.

My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.

The best ethics course is to handcuff one of the bastards.

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!

It's all your fault, Mother,' said Larry austerely; 'you shouldn't have brought us up to be so selfish.' 'I like that!' exclaimed Mother. 'I never did anything of the sort!' 'Well, we didn't get as selfish as this without some guidance,' said Larry.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

If you are a leader, the people are your work.

Blaming someone else will only put the solution further out of reach.

It's man's most basic and sacred stewardship-to serve as the guardian of his own behavior. And it's man's blackest and most fundamental evil to try and overthrow that stewardship

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

If our forefathers make the world awry, must our children be the ones to pay to right it?

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Be you never so high, the law is above you.

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.