Quotes About Accountability

North Carolina State Hospital Association, said: "An awful lot of people for a long time have had their heads in the sand on this issue, and it's time to do the right thing. It's as simple as that.

Deadlines focus our mental spotlight on a choice. They grab us by the collar and say, If you're gonna do this, you have to do it now.

As I see it, I am not just in charge of food service; I am in charge of morale.

In situations where your herd has embraced the right behavior, publicize it. For instance, if 80 percent of your team submits time sheets on time, make sure the other 20 percent knows the group norm. Those individuals almost certainly will correct themselves. But if only 10 percent of your team submits time sheets on time, publicizing those results will hurt, not help.

After age twenty-five, you're not a victim anymore — you're a volunteer.

Never let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash.

How pride had kept them from admitting their mistakes—and

If a person says that he can handle a certain task, he should fulfill it. Not to do so is sign of irresponsibility or lack of reliability.

A true leader makes a decision and then works to make the decision right.

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.

Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.

How well it had suited me, that absolute license to march up to evildoers and demand who, what, where, when and why?

I can never consent to being dictated to as to what I shall or shall not do. I, as President, shall be responsible for my administration.

If you don't feel as close to God today as you did yesterday, who moved?

all leadership begins with self-leadership.

I could have done something in there to stop it, that first day, before it got too far along. There'd be no stopping it, after that first day. I could have done it, if only I were a different kind of guy. But I'm not. I'm exactly this kind of guy. I'm all I've got, and I never claimed to have anything better to work with. *

Elected officials laugh when a butcher, presented with a pig, wastes the squeal.

ALL THOSE GOOD COPS YALL LOVE BRINGING UP WHEN YOU SAY NOT ALL COPS ARE BAD SEEM TO NEVER BE AROUND WHEN THEIR COMRADES ARE KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE

You're acting as if you believe this is our fault." "Of course it's our fault!" Walter was almost shouting now.

We can analyze what went wrong and discuss our own responsibility or lack thereof in private, but shouting that we are responsible out here, where that angry mob out front can hear us? That's a very bad idea.

He would feel horrible if anything happened to her and her baby, all because of him.

Circe: Do you know what they're looking for, Medea? she asked me. They're looking for a woman who'll tell them that they're not guilty of anything; that the gods, whom they worship by chance, compel them in their undertakings. That the track of blood they leave behind is proper to their male nature as the gods have determined it.

I often wonder if the bill is yet to be presented during our lifetime. If not, I must present it to myself.