Quotes About Accountability

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should be not only tolerated, but encouraged.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

As Rorschach so poetically put it, "This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not god who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us."12

Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.

The bureaucrat has become a self-styled sacred person; and the common man is blocked from finding out what the bureaucrats are doing, let alone controlling them.

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

The bottom line was that people who leaned too heavily on someone else were setting themselves up for a terrible fall, and they had no one to blame in the end but themselves for the hurt they suffered. Cork had learned the hard way.

Once someone's dead, being sorry doesn't cut it. If you hit a man, you can apologize. If you destroy his property, you can pay him back. But if you take his life, there's nothing you can ever do to make that right. Do you understand?

The inquest proceeded smoothly, evidence showing that Cork had acted reasonably. But the county attorney, Warren Evans, who was a crony of Robert Parrant, asked Cork a question that tilted the whole world of the inquest. "Why did you shoot six times, Sheriff? Shoot even after the man was down?

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

That the possession of great power necessarily implies great responsibility.

the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.

There is an ancient rule: actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea—"the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty." That is why we do not convict children, drunks, and schizophrenics: they are incapable of deciding to commit their crimes with a true understanding of the significance of their actions. Free will is as important to the law as it is to religion or any other code of morality. We do not punish the leopard for its wildness.

For a universe without moral accountability and devoid of value is unimaginably terrible.

For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad." [2 Cor. v. 10]

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else

Everyone is equally responsible for the shit they bring into the world.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

Freedom was wonderful beyond relief. But with it came that bitch, Duty.

As it concerns Clinton coverage, the Times will have a special place in journalism hell.

Each of us is guilty of the good we don't do.