Accountability Quotes

“I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?”

“Omittance is no quittance.”

“Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.”

“The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.”

“Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.”

“For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 lbs. I say by choice because you see I have never accidentally eaten anything.”

“Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.”

“When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.”

“Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.”

“Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.”

“In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.”

“Responsibility and commitment are key elements in meeting obligations.”

“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.”

“The right is more precious than peace.”

“The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.”

“Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.”

“I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.”

“For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.”

“Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.”

“When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.”

“The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.”

“I certainly do believe anyone engaged in the management of money should have a standard of measurement, and that both he and the party whose money is managed should have a clear understanding why it is the appropriate standard, what time period should be utilized, etc.”

“If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.”

“I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.”

“The government you elect is the government you deserve.”