Accountability Issues Quotes

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

Don't try to shift your responsibilities on to somebody else.

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.

I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.

It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.

The royal family are protected from public accountability by law.

Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.

Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.

You will look in vain to see Donald Trump ever taking responsibility for anybody and apologize.

I can live with my own mistakes. I can't live with anybody else's.

If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

There was no call from anybody in the band to discuss any of the things that had been a problem or what I had done wrong.

There are multi-scatterings of various and associated issues and concerns, but it all boils down to accountable people versus those unwilling to be accountable.

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it.

When a New York attorney general brings a lawsuit against a prominent business person, there are two things you can count on out of that office - lots of political bluster and little accountability.

I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.

If your best players are taking a shortcut, they're going to have problems holding everyone else accountable and responsible.

When I was on the London assembly it was quite common for government ministers to refuse to appear.

Government ... simply has no bottom line.

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

Police officers today are a protected class, one no politician wants to oppose. Law enforcement interests may occasionally come up short on budgetary issues, but legislatures rarely if ever pass new laws to hold police more accountable, to restrict their powers, or to make them more transparent. In short, police today embody all of the threats the Founders feared were posed by standing armies, plus a few additional ones they couldn't have anticipated.

In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.