Quotes About Accountability

You need to perform consistently, and if you're raising the standard, you have to stand by it. You have to keep on doing well.

I don't just want to go out there and do my job - I want to excel at it. I hold myself to a high standard. I expect to make plays that alter the game, and if I don't, I hold myself accountable.

I've always held myself to a higher standard, whether I was in law enforcement, whether I was in the military.

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise.

Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure and stopwatch management, and it also led to the requirement of interest-bearing currency to grow over time, the requirement of the expansion of our economy.

What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to schools, and have access to medicine and hospitals. Government may not directly provide these public goods and services, but government must be accountable for whether or not they are delivered to citizens.

When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.

We're going to make certain that we set a very high standard for ourselves.

I hold myself to a high standard on and off the field.

I hold myself to a very high standard. But you're going to make mistakes. You've got to erase it and move forward.

I'm not afraid to coach guys. But I am going to coach them to win, and I am going to hold them to a high standard.

There's a standard here as you step on the field as a Broncos defender.

I am tough on myself. It's just how I am. I hold myself to a standard.

Elected officials have always been held to a higher standard, as we should be.

No. 2 pick, you're supposed to do a job - you're supposed to turn the franchise around. And I don't think I did it to the best of my abilities. I didn't live up to that standard.

I know I have to live up to the hype wherever I go. If I'm an inch below the standard, it'll be chaos.

I learned early in my career that if you see something that is not to standard or not within the law, and you ignore it, you've set a new standard, and it's lower.

I wouldn't be doing my job, or holding myself to that standard that I see fit, if I just shut my mouth and played the game.

That's a big thing for me, being a guy that upholds himself to a high standard.

Miami is a place that if you like to work, then it's good for you. Because I feel like they hold you to a higher standard.

Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.

I've always held myself to high standards.

I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.