Quotes About Accountability

Open nominations means it is local Liberals who choose who gets to be their representative. But what that doesn't mean is that somebody can behave any which way and bully other people out of the nomination and then be the last person standing.

You need to have good people: honourable, capable, committed in politics, standing in public office. It's not a guarantee, but it's the ideal we have to aim for.

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

We have a presidential candidate who's deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate. That doesn't make sense to me, because if that was any other person, you'd be in prison. So what is this country really standing for?

A lot of people are thanking me for standing up, but I don't want to be the only one standing up. Our political leaders are important. But I don't see anyone hunting down these guys setting refugee camps on fire or sending them to jail.

I think standing up for facts and decency is important, and we should've done more of it back in 2015 and 2016.

No one should feel comfortable venting racist abuse, whether from the stands or through media outlets. Just as fans must call out any fans they see hurling abuse, journalists must call out colleagues who perpetuate divisive rhetoric. Name and shame them.

If the captain stands still and looks clueless, then it spreads to the whole team.

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.

Nobody stands above the law.

David Luiz has to work with the others if he deserves to play; otherwise, he will stay on the bench or in the stands.

Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.

It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.

I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

If I'm wrong, I'm man enough to say I'm wrong.

In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.

If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.

When managers have got decisions to make, whether it benefits me or not, I have to be man enough to take it.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.