Noel Fielding Quotes

We need to have some people fired for reasons of public trust.

Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.

When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldn't be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to L.A. and continue to pursue the acting thing.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

When results aren't good the manager gets the sack, that's the game.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

I was never quiet when I worked at @cnn, when we did dumb stuff. You can't just take the check & stay quiet. Truth demands a voice: speak up.

If you're doing something wrong, you deserve to be caught.

I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

If there are issues, if there's wrongdoing, people have to be held accountable and we have to try to deter future bad behavior.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

Practice yourself what you preach.

We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated

The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.

I'm not used to saying I'm gonna do something and i don't do it.

The law is not known, since there is nothing in it to know. We come across it only through its action, and it acts only through its sentence and its execution. It is not distinguishable from the application. We know it only through its imprint on our heart and our flesh: we are guilty, necessarily guilty. Guilt is like the moral thread which duplicates the thread of time.

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

Talk and action are two different things.

There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.

A leader in America or anyone who says they truly care about this nation without taking some kind of action is either a liar or insane. In either case, they are unfit to lead.

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.