Quotes About Accountability

La salvación de la moral y de la sociedad no se obtienen con vanos y costosos procesos contra los culpables, sino con interminables procesos contra los inocentes

he had done nothing wrong; there had always been others above him; he had never done anything but obey orders; he had never hurt a single human being.

I am responsible only to myself and my God. Only I know what I did of my own free will.

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.

The Mortals are free, Lucifer. What they've done they've done from within themselves. - Raphael

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.

You shut your door to these poor women," he said so they could hear him, "and you'll answer for it the rest of your lives. You won't sleep. You'll choke on drinks. The food you eat'll block up your bowels and you'll die of your own shit.

America, I'm gonna shoot straight with you, I think I've wasted your time. I think this is the first time I have wasted an hour of your time. I apologize for that.

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

After the signing of the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman on the street, "What have you given us, sir?" Franklin Responded, "A Republic, if you can keep it." A critical moment in history has come; our Republic is in jeopardy. Can we keep it? If the answer to that question, as I fear, is "no," then we have no one to blame but ourselves.

Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.

You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.

God takes attendance every day.

If you catch them in an early lie, they learn their lesson and so they don't continue to do it. But if you don't call them on early lies, they only get worse, bigger, and more dangerous.

America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences. It's a simple but effective formula. Unfortunately, tenured professors are completely insulated from it. They can scream fire in their classrooms all they want - and then hide behind their tenure if anyone questions them on it.

Anyone who speaks of punishing their political enemies in on the wrong side. It is clearly evil and we have a responsibility to say so.

If we want to be endowed with rights – real human rights, we have to act with responsibility. We must not be comfortable with rights. We must be comfortable with responsibility.

I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private individuals.

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

Democracy requires accountability and consent of the governed, which is only possible if citizens know what is being done in their name.

As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.