Quotes About Accountability

I don't think it's right that I'm part of the problem. I can't be part of the solution if I'm part of the problem

An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.

WERE TRANSPARENCY EXISTS NOT!, THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR FRUSTRATION AND DISASTER THEREIN

If you do not manage things, be prepared to face the consequences.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

Men take care of your responsibilities with maturity.

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Every country has the government it deserves.

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians.

I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.