Quotes About Accountability

I think the time has come when the American people understand that federal employees need to work an 8-hour day just like everybody else.

I try not to think about it as much when I'm working, it's more just doing my job, but I realize I have more of a responsibility than probably your everyday analyst.

Something my shrink once said bubbled up from memory: believing that everything is your fault is like saying the world revolves around you and that is pure narcissism and no less destructive.

Maybe it had been me causing this trouble all along. All my antics. I was the problem, the one who couldn't do right, no matter what.

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

Crime should not pay, it must be punished. Unfortunately, in Pakistan big crimes do get rewarded.

Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.

At the end of time when God judges us humans, I just hope He remembers to judge Himself as well.

I pray for that good woman. At the end of time when God judges us humans, I just hope He remembers to judge Himself as well.

Men who refuse to use condoms do not deserve to be fucked by anyone but other men who refuse to use condoms.

If we don't do better than those we accuse, we have no right to complain.

Most people justify their actions with excuses they believe cancel out their own accountability. Most people believe they had no choice to do anything other than what they did.

Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today?

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

it's easy to blame everyone else when it hurts to blame yourself. But in the end you have to face it.

Because what a man like him really needs is a God whom he can blame and whom he can get mad at when things go wrong. This way he's got nobody who can be the target of his anger and hatred and that's why he blames his wife, but she minds - and the one who is called God doesn't mind.

Power breeds responsibilities […] To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.

There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow.

Better no law than laws not enforced.

Let every fox take care of his own tail.

Years and sins are always more than owned.