Quotes About Accountability

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

enumeró las características fundamentales de las organizaciones burocráticas: puestos de trabajo específicos, con derechos, obligaciones, responsabilidades y límites a su autoridad, detallados y bien conocidos, así como un sistema claro de supervisión, subordinación y unidad de mando. Estas

Promete respetar la independencia de los medios de comunicación privados. Promete no ser autoritario. Promete. Promete. Promete.

The gap between our real power and what people expect from us is the source of the most difficult pressure any head of state has to manage.

los partidos políticos sirven (o deberían servir) de intermediarios entre la gente y su gobierno. Su función es conectar los deseos y necesidades de los votantes con las actividades y decisiones del gobierno. A

La brecha entre nuestro verdadero poder y lo que la gente espera de nosotros es lo que genera las presiones más difíciles que debe soportar cualquier jefe de Estado».

Restoring trust, reinventing political parties, finding new ways in which average citizens can meaningfully participate in the political process, creating new mechanisms of effective governance, limiting the worst impacts of checks and balances while averting excessive concentrations of unaccountable power, and enhancing the capacity of nation-states to work together should be the central political goals of our time.

los poderosos de hoy suelen pagar por sus errores un precio más elevado y más inmediato que sus predecesores.

A shoemaker, in making a pair of shoes, cannot spoil a scrap of leather without having to bear the loss; but in our business we may spoil a man without its costing us a farthing. The blunders are never put down to us, and it is always the fault of the fellow who dies. The best of this profession is, that there is the greatest honesty and discretion among the dead; for you never find them complain of the physician who has killed them.

It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

La culpa no es de los aduladores, sino del que quiere ser adulado.

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

Bad things happen when good people ignore them

Of course America is responsible for the total body count. We started it, we own it, we sow, we reap, but we are also disconnected from the responsibility of our won dirty acts of war.

People who live in glass houses might as well answer the door.

One simple apology is enough. Get up and don't do it again

Don't blame other people for your own mistakes.

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

Seek to perform your duties to your highest ability, this way your actions will be blameless.

Verily your deeds will be brought back to you, as if you yourself were the creator of your own punishment.