Quotes About Accountability

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.

Even as the leader of the party, my first duty always is to the people who elected me, my first duty always is going to be to represent the people of this riding in Ottawa.

Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.

Everyone without extraordinary research skills ought to be able to know what is happening inside the government, how it operates, where their tax dollars are going. Then they can make better decisions in the electoral process.

There's no federal government agency that ought to be immune from having to explain the potential financial impact of an action they've taken or intend to take. We deserve the specifics.

I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents; and that the power which really controls, ultimately, all the movements, is not in the agents, but those who elect or appoint them.

If I am elected to Congress, I will put the interests of our community first, and I will actively seek input and respond to it.

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

I don't take myself too seriously, but I take the job very seriously, and I expect people to do the job that they're given because this is about all our people, young and old, and it's an enormous responsibility.

If somebody wants to book Alec Baldwin on one of our shows, and he wants to come on and talk to our people and say what he wants, I don't care. We would question him on his choice of words.

I think more and more, in places like Benghazi, in places like Iran, we have to be asking the question, can we trust the local government to protect our people?

It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours.

If we continue to allow the federal government to live beyond its means, we will all soon have to live beneath ours.

We need to step up because our past generations did their jobs; we now need to do ours.

We follow highest level of corporate governance, which is in line with a global company like ours.

AIDS is a judgment we have brought upon ourselves.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.