Quotes About Accountability

Freedom is not the greatest thing; how we decide to use our freedom is the greatest thing.

The less comprehensible he was, the more responsible he was held to be. Here was no lightweight.

Colonel Robert Sink, commanding officer of the 506th PIR, ordered me to prepare a written summary of the battle since no senior officer witnessed the engagement. I purposely avoided the use of the first personal pronoun 'I' because I wanted each soldier to receive credit for what he had done. Later Sink issued a citation to the 1st Platoon that shouldered the principal burden of the fight.

One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.

after the matter has cooled off during an extended period of investigation, to find a scapegoat to blame for unauthorized tampering with the mails.

But it seemed that for every competent man or woman there was an incompetent man above. It was the law of trickle-up irresponsibility. And the competent man and woman spent so much time manipulating the incompetent men they had neither the time nor the motivation to do their jobs properly.

He'd once read (or heard)—Disraeli, was it? (or Jimmy Bowden?)—that a man ought never to apologize; never to explain. He did neither

It is all my fault! But the blind man when he stumbles over a stone, curses the stone, not the blindness that made him stumble. 17

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.

the wreckage of representative government is strewn with broken promises.

You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that working for you?

Corruption will be enemy number one.

Someone who undervalues himself eventually will blame others for his depreciation.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

Plan harm for another and harm yourself most, The evil we hatch always comes home to roost.

don't expect Nicky to provide some kind of happily ever after for you. Because it's not up to him, it's up to you.

Fisk would take care of it.

Why would I trust a man with my business, if he could not manage his own?

Oh, you are not disappointing," Henry says. "But the moment you are, I will let you know.