Quotes About Accountability

We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.

We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

He is the one who should apologize," he said to the foreman. "He broke down our door and sat on our fire.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

the leader of a so-called democracy who ignores the will of the majority or fears criticism of his actions must resort to slinking in the shadows and to tightly controlling access to himself and to his ministers. Such is Stephen Harper's government.

I am going to hell. Not passing go. Just straight to hell.

People don't obey a law just because they're told to. But if they know the consequences of an act and do it anyway, then that's a conscious and informed choice and they have no cause to protest the punishment.

You know what? You didn't do anything wrong. I did. It's this dumb thing I do. I look into things and see more than I'm supposed to.

Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (...) What you can't understand, you destroy.

You blame me for this, don't you?" he says. "I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.

Sometimes it's hard to hear when we've done something wrong. But we can learn from our mistakes.

to not act is a choice too

Go apologize because it's your fault because you are the man. If you didn't get this wrong, you will get something else wrong.

I have lived this life, and no matter what others may decide about it, I must claim each decision as mine. I have caused harm, failed in the expectations and obligations of love. I have loved well. What I do each day is carried within me until I die.

distinguish between excusable and inexcusable mistakes,

In the lean world," he grinned, "if the student hasn't learned, the teacher hasn't taught." "And what if I train them and then they leave?" "What if you don't and they stay?" he replied.

We assume that people want to do a good job. When they don't, we assume that something happened to them to make them do otherwise.

If God acts only through us, it follows that there is a sense in which we are responsible not only to God but for God, or at least God's continuance, by our actions.4 Take this to heart and a great deal changes. One weight is lifted and another is taken on—a weight that does not bend our backs but gives joy to life and purchase to our step.

The press really is not doing its job of holding [the candidates'] feet to the fire. ... The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

When you talk about "saving the planet" you turn it into an ethical question, and I think you won't solve problems if they are ethical.

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any concept of accountability and giving them some sort of false confidence. The different is that while Catholicism has an abundance of intellectual underpinnings to support its arguments, anti-Catholicism and atheist have few if any.