Quotes About Accountability

You are judge by your words

Your thoughts and words will either acquit or condemn you.

Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning.

Duty is sinless.

Be careful of what you dwell on and what you say. Your thoughts and words will either acquit or condemn you.

It is your life, accept the responsibility.

If you're early, you're on time. If you're on time, you're late.

A decision is a responsibility, if you cannot handle responsibility, don't take decisions.

If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says thinks or does is without consequences.

It is no use blaming the men-we made them what they are-and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves-the makers of men-a little more responsible.

Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them good or bad.

There is a source of power in each of us that we don't realize until we take responsibility.

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

Power must never be trusted without a check.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see this crap movie.

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.