William P. Leahy Quotes

Everyone makes mistakes, and they never go unnoticed when you're in the public eye.

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

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

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.

It’s very difficult to come to grips with how we screwed this up, but we screwed this up.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.

The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.

To err is human. To cover it up is weasel.

Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.

It's time for these people to have accountability for what is being done.

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

A fault is fostered by concealment.

I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

Basically, as a leader, I try not to make any mistakes, because there's a lot of people watching even though you don't think so.

Public agencies should be criticized.

You get blamed for whatever happens on your watch.

If a botch is made at the other end of the Avenue, I don't mean to be a party to it.

To err is human. To blame somebody else is politics.

A mistake that is kept secret only harms the person who has committed it, but if it becomes public and is not denounced, it harms the community

You ask me why I air your dirty laundry, but you do not ask yourself why you soil it to begin with.