Quotes About Accountability

We need to be responsible for ourselves; we must create our own republics. Today we hand over our responsibility to the boss, to the company, to government, and then blame them when everything goes wrong.

A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.

You can't let buffoons rule your life.

One moral of this little story might be that once you've burned a bridge with lies, it may be that nothing short of divine intervention can rebuild the relationship and create a positive result.

It seems that the people who question me the most are the ones who've committed the most outlandish or atrocious acts.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins

We can mark a day on the calendar where America has fallen to a new low. This is now the condoning of taking matters, and the law, into you own hands and going to any lengths - even jungle savagery.

Love doesn't justify your actions. Your actions justify your love.

There's no I in team, but there is in idiot.

When all else fails blame your high school drama teacher.

We don't do body counts.

Remember, when you make a choice, you also choose the consequences of that choice.

1. You can immediately blame the numskull who didn't screw on the cap after he used it and demand that he help you clean up, or . . .

Excuses should be laughed at, not dignified. Excuses and responsibility cannot coexist. It's

Excuses are contagious, self-defeating bad habits. Where

One time I got a D on my report card and my mom said What do I have to say about that? and I said Hey, at least I didn't cheat.

Like I use to tell my daughter's daddy, the key to getting along and living with other folks is to keep clear whose weight is whose.

Teachers who are accountable to principals who are, in turn, accountable to school communities are likely to be more professionally 'grounded' and less susceptible to avant garde fashions in curriculum and pedagogy. School

Humans are cowards; they leave their problems for their children to sort out.

You humans ... always looking for a sensei, always handing over responsibility for your actions to a higher power.

Perhaps I could put this to you too: that it is not only the decision that matters, I mean democracy is about how you do things, not just what the outcome is.

I have five questions that I ask people who have power, and I recommend them to the House. If I see someone who is powerful, be it a traffic warden, Rupert Murdoch, the head of a trade union or a Member of Parliament, I ask myself these five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? How can we get rid of you?" That last question is crucial.

It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his.