Gordon Brown Quotes

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

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

He who flees proves himself guilty.

I accept the responsibility but not the blame. Let me explain the difference. Those who are to blame lose their jobs. Those who are responsible do not.

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.

You get blamed for whatever happens on your watch.

Failure is almost never at the cost of those responsible.

I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.

That's the true meaning of being a leader: being able to deal with the consequences and take the responsibility for it. That's who I want to be.

I take accountability for my actions.

Ultimately, even if you follow the advice of a mentor or board member, it's still your fault if they were wrong!

When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell you she did it to herself, but both ways I'd be lying. It was you who did it, Lily. You didn't mean it, but it was you.

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions.

I hate it when people blame someone else and don't take responsibility.

We should hold abusers — and no one else — responsible for the damage they inflict.

Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Sometimes the choices you make are good and other times it goes the other way. I take full responsibility as coach.

Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.

I made the decision. I'm accountable.

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.

If someone is responsible, it's me.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.