Quotes About Accountability

Free will makes us the authors of our own choices, our own sins, our own fates—not other people, not classes or races or genders.

History judges you by your success or failure," he pontificated. "That's what counts. Nobody asks the victor whether he was in the right or wrong." Before

History judges you by your success or failure," he pontificated. "That's what counts. Nobody asks the victor whether he was in the right or wrong.

Forgiveness doesn't mean that we deny the hurt, forget that it happened, or recuse the offender of responsibility or accountability; it means that we're not going to destroy our potential, to harm us anymore. At its core, forgiveness is a choice to give up our role as a victim.

The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.

We have to be willing to live at the same standard by which we judge.

You can choose how you want to live. You are free to choose the actions, but not the results. You are free to have your kicks, but not to avoid the kickbacks. You are free to make choices, but not to avoid the consequences.

The White Throne Judgment will be nothing like our modern court cases. At the White Throne, there will be a Judge but no jury, a prosecution but no defense, a sentence but no appeal.

We, the parents of this generation, along with the degrading entertainment media, the biased news media, the lying politicians, the brainwashing government school system, and the rest of society's once-great institutions whose degradation we have tolerated, are responsible.

i wish there was a thing called stupid tax, which paid for all the stupid things our government does.

I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.

I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

It's always easy to blame other people for holding you back. But sometimes, the only person holding you back is . . . well . . . you.

Get shitfaced, then face the shit.

The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after

I don't know what good I could do. None of us does. That doesn't let us off the hook.

When courts usurp the legislative function and make laws rather than interpret them, when Congress delegates its legislative functions to an unaccountable administrative state, and when presidents issue lawless executive orders, they are abusing their respective constitutional authority.

You've nobody to blame but yourself, you know.

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.

The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: Government by Gotcha.

Talent is part of the equation, but when you combine talent with accountability and authenticity, it is tough to beat.

You'd have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to know what you're getting yourself into, so if there's blame, blame yourself.

Then I met a woman named Janine who was bitten and had to spend a week in the hospital. "It was completely my own fault," she said. "I shouldn't have been wearing sandals." "It didn't have to strike you," I reminded her. "It could have just slid away." Janine was the type who'd likely blame herself for getting mugged. "It's what I get for having anything worth taking!" she'd probably say.