Quotes About Accountability

If our governments are so compromised that they will not tell us the truth, then we must step forward to grasp it.

Oust me if you want, but if I stepped down, I would be admitting guilt.

If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt... retire?

We've already seen other candidates set up these secretive super PACs where they don't take any responsibility for what they're funding... because that's how the game has always been played. I've been very proud to tell people, 'I'm stepping forward, and you can see every single one of our donors.'

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

The president can take steps to make sure the American public knows what its Justice Department and FBI have been up to.

How long shall thy Madness outbrave our justice?

He was going to hell in the old hand basket, and he decided that maybe he would take someone with him.

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

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Bad excuses are worse than none.

When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue long, commonly both become guilty.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

You see, at Rugby I was rather a great man. There one had a share in the ruling of 300 boys, and a good deal of responsibility; but here one has only just to take care of oneself, and keep out of scrapes; and that's what I never could do.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

The people are the only censors of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution.

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

There was no particular reason for the Canadian government to remember what had happened to the Cherokee in the 1840s. After all, most governments can't remember the promises that got them elected.

Dans notre monde bien protégé et si moderne, il n'y a plus de fautifs, plus de fautes non plus. Des incursions ruineuses comme celles de Cuba, du Vietnam, de l'Irak et de l'Afghanistan ne sont plus le fait d'un seul responsable. Par un tour de passe-passe bien pensé, notre propagande donne à croire que les gens et les pays que nous attaquons ont provoqué notre agression.