Quotes About Accountability

Oh, don't let him pull that 'Pearl Harbor I'm going off to war' stuff on you.

When words fail, the hammer drops, living can never be its own excuse.

We make our own rules and lose by them.

Perhaps one of the lessons of any nation's history is that the people are indeed responsible for the sins of the fathers; they are not guilty, but responsible for setting right the wrongs done in the past.

Take the president of the United States, for example,' he says. 'I'm not talking about George Bush specifically as much as I'm generally talking about the position of president. What an awesome responsibility that must be to lead a country under the most scrutiny.

Historians who carefully examined the events and details behind the disasters of the Titanic, the Challenger, and the Bay of Pigs have determined a common thread: the inability or unwillingness of participants and leaders to raise questions about their concerns. Some group members were fearful that they were the only one who had a particular concern (when, in fact, it was later discovered that many people in the group had similar concerns).

Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.

If you are the boss it's wise to remember that there are lots of things you don't know and lots of people who hope you won't find out.

We judge ourselves by our best acts and most noble intentions, but we will be judged by our last worst act.

What you allow, you encourage.

You can't escape moral judgment through a legal loop hole.

If you want to be remembered as a good person, then try to be a good person. Who knows? It might just work. But start now, because if you're a boomer, time is running out.

Whether his students were the sons of plumbers or millionaires, Dobias did not care. They would follow his orders, no questions or whining tolerated. Donald was no exception.

Let him who has done this be removed from among you" (1 Cor. 5:1–2). He even ordered that the offending, unrepentant brother be delivered "to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord" (v. 5).

Fighting DC is like arresting the street dealer, who is the end point in the drug trade. It's the most visible aspect of the problem, sure, but it doesn't address the source of the spreading contamination.

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.

The idea that every government official counts as all-wise and incorruptible makes no more sense than the assumption that each corporate honcho displays flawless judgment and stainless ethics.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." ? Denis Waitley

Given these proclivities on the part of food companies—competitive, beholden to Wall Street, and in utter denial about their culpability—an intervention by Washington would certainly seem to be in order.

If you ask Muslim women why they cover up, ninety-nine percent of them will say it's to avoid arousing men. Fuck that, where's your self-accountability?

Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didn't. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn't. You either filled a pothole or you didn't. That's what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done.

Leia, only weak leaders never admit to mistakes. Strong leaders don't need to pretend to be infallible.

If the execution of a million or more sentient beings, the destruction of a dozen planetary communities, isn't enough—if the members of the Council need a living victim paraded in front of them to move them to act—then shame on them. And shame on us.

Shame is a scarce commodity in politics