Quotes About Accountability

I know that if I ever have the audacity to blame fate or God for holding a gun to my temple, I also have the wherewithal to remind myself that if I end up with a hole in my head, I was the one who pulled the trigger.

Sin always takes you further than you meant to go and keeps you longer than you meant to stay.

Discipline is doing the right thing, for the right reason, at the right time.

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

I think that if someone plays a video game, and then goes out and harms another human being, or themselves because of what they just saw in the video game, they were screwed up in the head long before they got their hands on a controller.

There's no question that history will record that I took a helluva shellacking.

There's no question we made a couple mistakes there at UCLA at the very end.

Pressure is always on if you don't perform. There is no question.

There's no question I'm responsible for some of the plays and some of the games we haven't won. I'm not going to shy away from that.

Why should there be a different set of laws for criminals who are juveniles? As far as I am concerned there should be no reason for any leniency.

There's no reason for me to lie. If I did something, I'll admit to it. I don't want to be accused of something I didn't do.

I don't want to lead an organization where I have no sense of what the members think of me - and by arrangement. I would never do that.

At no time I have used the resources of my office to facilitate a relationship of any type.

You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.

Back in the day, you could have a crap gig, and nobody would film you. Now, everybody's got an iPhone - you have a bad day, and it's going on the Internet.

I already know what people are going to say about me, and judge me for the decisions that I'm making, and I'm going to be the one who has to deal with that, and nobody else. And that's a lot.

If you're the star of a show, the next one has to be as good or better, and if you're doing a series, if anything goes wrong, it's your fault. There's nobody else to blame.

Nobody's going to help me when I get in that ring. That's how I like it: the responsibility's on me, and whatever happens is down to me, nobody else.

All I can say is that you have to live with your conscience at the end of your life, and it's the only thing that you have that belongs to yourself and nobody else.

I think people do want to cut through the noise, and they do want straight shooters, and they want you to call people out on the facts when the facts are the facts.

I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

I've always told the truth. I think that's been part of the foundation of my career. I don't put myself above people. I don't put myself different than people. And I, for one, know that none of us is immune.

Better a bad excuse, than none at all.

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.