Quotes About Accountability

Doesn't matter, does it?" said George. "They're just as dead. Their blood is on your hands." "They don't have blood." "Humans are only literal when they're ashamed of something.

Listen, Bob. A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel—or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good—and as bad—as the man who carries it. Remember that.

God gave me my talent and I was afraid of facing him one day if I didn't use it.

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.

No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.

When you own your choices, you own their consequences.

The third way is less common and certainly less of a layup—a culture of integrity, meaning a culture of honesty, transparency, fairness, and strict adherence to rules and regulations. In such cultures, there can be no head fakes or winks. People who break the rules do not leave the company for "personal reasons" or to "spend more time with their families." They are hanged—publicly—and the reasons are made painfully clear to everyone.

Prove it. I'll measure your words against your actions, and from that I will determine your worth.

February 2018, the House passed the Congressional Accountability Reform Act, based on that ME TOO Congress Act.

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone, are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen long ago! from We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust

Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals who have been imprisoned for plotting violence against abortion clinics should never again be permitted anywhere near such facilities.

But who, he wondered in a moment's panic as her nearing heat began to assault him, who enforces the Enforcer?

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one's scapegoats.

the state is not immoral but amoral; half of it exists outside morality

il étouffe - le monde se couche sur lui - et l'étouffe - il est prisonnier - coincé par ses promesses … on lui demande des comptes … En face de lui … une machine à compter - une machine à écrire des lettres d'amour - une machine à souffrir - le saisit … s'accroche à lui … Pierre dis-moi la vérité

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable we have to take action.

When a rat pokes his head up from the sewer, he needs to be hit on the head with a shovel immediately. You cannot just sit back and think, 'Well, it's just one rat' or 'That's somebody else's problem.' Because it's never just one rat, and it eventually becomes your problem.

Considering that no man is an Island, and no man is above the Law. Then, breaking the law is a penalty all citizen should endure."

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones.

I'm a good self-starter when it comes to guilt.

la mexicana en la actualidad, no cuenta con instituciones adecuadas y sólidas para responder con rapidez y éxito al reto de las organizaciones criminales: las tiene que crear. Hereda instituciones que fueron diseñadas para funcionar con controles verticales, sin transparencia ni rendición de cuentas, con prácticas de corrupción muy arraigadas, y una sociedad civil desorganizada.

Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.