Quotes About Accountability

Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say.

What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation's largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation.

The national debt—that is, the unfunded liabilities and fiscal operating debt—amounts to tens of trillions of dollars. The Government Accountability Office, the Congressional Budget Office, and numerous other public and private institutions have sounded warning alarms about the oncoming crash. But no serious or effective steps have been taken to address this simmering financial and economic implosion.

Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps . . . and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life

In fact, so bad is the federal government's management of its massive resources that the General Accountability Office (GAO) found the accuracy of most of its financial reporting suspect.

The failure of American education is an unforgivable dereliction of one generation to the next.

As a writer you have as many bosses as you have readers...though in the end, you must answer to yourself.

This book is easy to understand and gets your attention. The real life examples are effective in delivering the message on the tremendous power of personal accountability. At the Callaway Energy Center, we trained our leaders on personal accountability and used this book as a guide. This resulted in notable improvements in our teamwork, engagement, accountability, and performance. I highly recommend it." —Fadi Diya, vice president, nuclear operations, Ameren Corporation

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

If the cops didn't see it, I didn't do it!

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason - to pass the tax bill on to you.

I may be irresponsible but I am a good irresponsible.

The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing.

When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there.

You keep the title of 'president' even if you served only one term. The same goes for rapists.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

Future generations will judge us not by what we say, but what we do.