Quotes About Accountability

That was totally his fault-Kenji's.. He tried to cross on red.. You ignore the signal, you'll get hurt. every kindergartener knows.. red means stop." -Slam Dunk

He crossed the road when the signal was red, that's his problem!

I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

I'm telling you, you did what you believed you had to do through all of this. Not what was easiest or best for you. You did what you did, and you're owning it. And I don't know ten men who would be brave enough to do that.

For a lame horse, slippery is an excuse

It's not always pleasant to do necessary things. But part of being adult, of being independent, means that you see what needs to be done and you do it. No muss, no fuss. Right?

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

But give me more credit than that. Someone else may have dealt the hand, but I picked it up off the table, I played every card, and I had my reasons.

Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.

once the ruler is no longer willing to be the sacrifice for his people, he becomes not a leader but a leech,

I don't mind giving you a hand where you actually need it, but I'm not going to be left handling the real business while you chase it off on some nonsense you've got into your head.

Cal wouldn't have known how to explain that it wasn't that he couldn't handle the job any more. It was that one or the other of them, him or the job, couldn't be trusted.

you take someone down a peg, always give him a way to climb back up.

Take what you want and pay for it, says God.

Black people got mad about being treated like crap. Bad cops got mad 'cause they were getting called on their shit all of a sudden. Good cops got mad 'cause they were the bad guys when they hadn't done anything.

I tell you what I won't put up with. You chose how to behave.

Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?

I have made a special point of leading a life free from reproof. It's been tedious in the extreme and, as a result, I shouldn't be left to deal with someone else's mess.

we are bound tightly by our past actions, the effects of which are inescapable.

When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

You say you want my advice. Here's what I have. Tell the truth. Don't try to cushion the blow. If you're bad enough to do it, you're bad enough to tell it.

if you lose it very time he tries to clean, you're encouraging him to lie.

Who is to blame, then, when everyone is innocent? And what is the value of blame at all?