Quotes About Accountability

Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.

I have brought you to the treasure house of the world. If you leave without it you may henceforth blame nobody but yourself.

metrics often foster compliance with words rather than with intent.

remember, when you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

The internet is now a forum for public prosecution.

It's a really, really scary thing to stand here, to put words in people's mouths to say to God. It's terrifying to me. You potentially could mess someone up for...I don't know, eternity.

Show me a transcript of the words you've spoken, typed, or texted in the course of a day, an account of your doings, and a record of your transactions, and I'll show you your religion.

Good political institutions are those that make it as easy as possible to detect whether a ruler or policy is a mistake, and to remove rulers or policies without violence when they are.

systems of government are to be judged not for their prophetic ability to choose and install good leaders and policies, but for their ability to remove bad ones that are already there.

Could it be that the moral imperative not to destroy the means of correcting mistakes is the only moral imperative?

Good/bad explanation An explanation that is hard/easy to vary while still accounting for what it purports to account for.

A good officer can get away with being wrong, but he can't be indecisive.

The things other people said or did would always give room to take offense, if you were of a mind to take offense. Therefore the fault wasn't in the other people.

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

Upon the exposure of his bribery, it is reported he said, "I should have paid more.

And now, if there are faults they are the mistakes of men. —The Book of Mormon, translated by JOSEPH SMITH

Never ask one of your peers to carry bad news for you. If there's going to be a disaster in any part of the organization that you're running, whether it's a personnel issue or a financial issue, always inform the boss yourself.

The shift in accountability from employer to employee caused a move from reasonably well-managed, low-cost investment programs to generally poorly managed, high-cost investment programs.

Do something untoward and there is a good chance that it might be observed, recorded and, given time, judged.

C]ameras, in the right hands-or at least in more and more hands of average citizens-may help create a culture in which the previously powerless have the welcome recourse of evidence against the culpable.

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

I don't take responsibility at all." Those words of Donald Trump at a March 13, 2020, press conference are likely to be history's epitaph on his presidency.

Until we are willing to accept the unpleasant truths of our existence, we rationalize or deny responsibility for our behavior.

Pone merum et talos pereat qui crastina curat.