Nate Silver Quotes

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble ... deny your responsibility.

I don't expect our leaders to be free of mistakes, I expect our leaders to own up to them.

Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.

If you've made a mistake, if you've made a blunder, admit it to yourself, and then go to the people affected by it and admit it to them, and tell them you're sorry. Full-heartedly and openly. The fact of the matter is, that people who do that make an enormous impression. It's the right thing to do. It's the moral thing to do.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

My biggest pet peeve is when people don't admit what they've done.

Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.

In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility.

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done.

It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devilishly hard

Failure is almost never at the cost of those responsible.

I take accountability for my actions.

Responsible, who wants to be responsible? Whenever something bad happens, it's always, who's responsible for this?

Once you say something, it stays said. I apologized to anyone who may have been hurt by what I said, and I really meant it. I am absolutely not interested in hurting anyone, or being mean or insensitive.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

I think you need to make responsibility something that's not just a word.

Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.

It is important to admit your mistakes, and to do so before you are charged with them. Many clients are surrounded by buckpassers who make a fine art of blaming the agency for their own failures. I seize the earliest opportunity to assume the blame.

There's responsibility, but there's also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad.

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others.