Quotes About Accountability

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

You have to make some hard decisions when you're speaker.

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

Generally speaking, companies get into bankruptcy as a kind of meritocracy. Somebody made some sort of big mistake, to get into bankruptcy, and very often, a part of the mistake is too much leverage.

I don't think any of us are careful enough about emails. When you are writing an email, you should imagine yourself in an auditorium speaking to 5,000 people, with your mother and grandmother in the audience, and it is being broadcast on CNN.

We shouldn't have someone working in the Oval Office trying to discredit and smear a private individual who's just speaking their mind about an important issue facing the country. That is not going to move our nation forward.

The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks?

I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens.

Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.'

There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

Being in the gaffer's seat is very special.

Public servants should be focused on serving the public - not any special interest group, and good governance should be an expectation - not an exception.

What this nation most wants, most yearns for, most needs is someone where people know, all Americans know, that even when they disagree well with him, he will always be accountable to them above one's party, above self and any special interest.

If you're a representative, you listen to your constituents, and then you go vote their conscience. You don't go vote your special interest buddies' interest and then come back and justify it.

Americans want someone who is accountable to them above self, above party, and above any special interest. They want a President that has a depth of global experience to restore U.S. leadership to the world and to protect our American dream at home.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

If someone is not playing defense or not giving effort, that's my specialty. I don't hold back on my words.

We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.

I think if you look at the realm we're discussing, which is the political realm, I think it would be impossible to find an action by any politician intended to specifically favor either my firm or myself.

Too often, the very institutions that are supposed to protect and serve our community have instead failed people of color, specifically our black community.

I think you can do that specifically with players - you can be tough on them, expect a lot from them, but not be somebody they despise.

If a politician takes a bribe to do what he thinks would have been best for the public anyway, he still goes to jail. If he's president, under a Constitution that refers to impeachment specifically for 'bribery,' as well other 'high crimes and misdemeanors,' he should still be removed.