Accountability Quotes

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.

I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

The American people deserve a blueprint for policymaking that is built upon the Constitution of the United States and the principles of fiscal discipline, limited government, accountability, and a strong national defense.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

Accountability begins with transparency.

It is much easier to start something than to finish it.

People always suffer for what governments have done.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

No one is able to rule unless he is also able to be ruled.

Questioning is the great strength of democracy; the ability to doubt without losing face

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

In my former life I was in insider, as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like, and I still know what it's like to be an insider. It's not bad, it's not bad. Now I'm being punished for leaving the special club and revealing to you the terrible things that are going on having to do with America. Because I used to be part of the club, I'm the only one that can fix it.

Every nation has the government it deserves. Toute nation a le government qu'elle merite.

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

A fool always accuses other people; a partially wise man himself; a wholly wise man, neither himself nor others.

It is Chairman Mao who should be held primarily responsible for the Great Leap Forward. But it didn't take him long - just a few months - to recognize his mistake, and he did so before the rest of us and proposed corrections. And in 1962, when because of some other factors those corrections had not been fully carried out, he made a self-criticism. But the lessons were not fully drawn, and as a result the "Cultural Revolution" erupted.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.