Quotes About Accountability

At one time, we were asked to play your own man; you're responsible for your own man. And, if you were good enough and kind of a ball hawk, you helped everyone else. Now it's really much more of a team concept defensively than it was when we played.

You want to challenge experts, because experts get a lot wrong. Doctors misdiagnose one time in five. In the U.S. and Canada, 50,000 people die every year who would not have had to.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.

Online, you can't be scooped. If you are scooped, it's no one's fault but your own.

Only Americans can hurt America.

Do I show up onstage late sometimes? That's something I could definitely work on. I'm human.

If we do have people appearing on the air live that are later found out to be Holocaust deniers or anything like that, we immediately put them onto a list of people who are forbidden from the air.

Hold onto power and you lose your moral compass.

Teams expect a lot from an opening batsman. It is a lot of responsibility.

Well I think that you have to be open and honest in order to learn from your mistakes and be able to correct them in the future to understand what would happen to take things off course. And if we don't address these issues openly and honestly then we don't learn.

When it comes to work, there is a fear factor around meritocracy. People are afraid of being openly judged. However, when you know what you are being measured against, it's empowering.

It is not justice when you beat someone after tying their hands, but award a clean chit to another who openly confesses his crimes.

From the beginning of my administration, I have made it clear that I will budget openly and honestly with the people of Louisiana.

I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

I don't buy this thing that our industry is responsible for all the ills of the world. We have great people at JPMorgan Chase. We operate with a lot of rigor. Our clients are happy with us.

All business must have a social license to operate.

You will be a far more effective whistleblower if you operate within a legal framework.

Businesses operating in fragile or conflict-affected environments bear a responsibility to, at the very minimum, do no harm and avoid fuelling conflict or reinforcing fragility.

At the most basic level, a central bank must be clear and open about its actions and operations, particularly when they involve the deployment of public funds.

Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.