Herbert Hoover Quotes

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

I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly.

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

I dare you to show me one example where I haven't discharged my responsibility seriously, professionally and appropriately.

No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.

Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

I believe I am entitled to a public explanation.

You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.

I feel like I owe it to the readers to try to pull back the veil and give them the honest version of what's going on. But it's not more fun. If Obama, as he does sometimes already, gets a little snippy with me about something I've written, you're thinking, 'Oh God, the president of the United States is already annoyed with 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.

Few men in high places will admit a mistake.

We are not nave enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

The margin of error when working on the White House staff is zero. Any mistake you make will wind up on the front page of the Washington Post.

There is a pervasive lack of accountability in medicine that extends from the most newly qualified doctor right through the most senior professors.

The Bush administration should come clean with the American people and admit that they were wrong.

You can’t get away from your votes. You can’t get away from your statements.

I have been in public office and have been criticized. I do not object to it. A public official should be willing to be criticized. An agent of the people of this country should be called to account.

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

We have too much respect for our father to make a Bush Beer or write books or do anything that's self-serving. I know all of us will avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest with the government and bend over backward to stay out of the news.

I'll be the first one to tell you if I made a mistake.

I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: "An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.

Everybody in the government with whom I emailed knew that I was using a personal email, and I have said it would have been a better choice to have had two separate email accounts. And I've also tried to not only take responsibility, because it was my decision, but to be as transparent as possible.

I made a mistake using a private e- mail.And if I had to do it over again, I would, obviously, do it differently. But I'm not going to make any excuses. It was a mistake, and I take responsibility for that.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.