Quotes About Accountability

So you think long and hard about what you see here today, and where you're headed. But if you run, run fast. Because I'm going to come after you. That's just the kind of bastard I can't seem to help being

1. I am superior to others. Circle one: Doesn't apply to me. Partially applies to me. Fully applies to me. And: I would not feel sorry if someone were blamed for something I did. Circle one: Doesn't apply to me. Partially applies to me. Fully applies to me.

If you don't want to deal with things like guilt, shame and disappointment later on in life, then you'll have t start now by making choices that won't result in those things...tomorrow's regret depends on today's decisions. If you don't want to regret your physical intimacy tomorrow, then you'll have to be living in un-regrettable physical intimacy today.

Well, you know, sometimes we're hardest on the people we know we can count on not to ditch us no matter how lousy we act.

Get in the habit of following through. Keep the promises you make to yourself.

Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and I became a councilor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.

There are some guys you date who are so bad that when you tell the story about them, it reflects just as badly on you as it does on them.

Shit Does'nt Happen, It's Cause and Effects! " You Cause It, & You Endure the Effects! Correct???

Being a leader is a lonely place, you got to be responsible for the decision you made that effect a lot of people. And when you make a decision it's never clear that your decision is right or wrong, it's always in a gray-area.

Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change.

Today's problems are yesterday's mistakes coming back to bite you in the ass.

There is no surer road to perdition than the ledger glands dictate your direction.

You guys gotta get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged on one thing: the result.

Ever since I got married I've been thinking night and day about whose fault it was, and every time I think about it, out comes a new fault to eat up the old one; but always there's a fault left.

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity.

It won't do to shrink from hard speeches and judgments when they are necessary. But it is horrible to make them when one is not compelled.

I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong.

They vow to amend their lives, and yet they don't; Because if drown'd, they can't—if spared, they won't.