Quotes About Accountability

Unlike other professions - doctor, lawyer, teacher, journalist, sales clerk, stock broker - when a cop makes a bad mistake, it could mean someone is dead. They take home mental baggage unlike anything carried in almost every other job.

Unlike the Japanese internment, water-boarding was ordered and served up in secret. But it, too, was America's policy, not just Dick Cheney's. Congress was informed about what was happening and raised no objection. The public knew, too.

We should start with the basics: Police officers are unlikely to be held accountable if the prosecutors investigating and potentially prosecuting them feel indebted to them.

We need to end unlimited, unaccountable money for all political parties by passing comprehensive campaign finance reform.

Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash as long as that fear persists, while government officials in the National Security and Surveillance State can claim unlimited powers and operate with unlimited secrecy and no accountability.

You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.

It's unnecessary for elected officials to release their taxes because they are already required by law to submit a personal financial disclosure.

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

Too many Americans mistrust their government. And unnecessary government secrecy feeds this mistrust.

There are no taxes that are unpaid, nor were there any taxes that I was responsible for that didn't get paid.

Punishment for doing your job well is an unparalleled professional pressure.

I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government's feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government.

Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant.

Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded.

Humor can prove to be the conversational lubricant you need to remove the tension from the most unpleasant management- and accountability-related conversations.

We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.

I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished.

Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.

When people feel like, 'Lenders weren't fair with me; I don't have any responsibility to be fair with them.' If we go far enough down that line, much of the fabric of our economy starts to unravel.

People who are given a lot, a lot is expected out of them. I realize that, but I also realize expectations are unrealistic sometimes.

If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.

I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while.

I call it dark energy. If you are unreliable, customers just disappear.