Accountability Quotes

"I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it."

"Every decision you make, you got to stand on that decision."

"There is no accountability in soft money. None."

“The biggest thing I've learnt is that sometimes you have to be vulnerable and hold your hands up and own your mistakes.”

"Who will guard the guards themselves?"

Juvenal

"Rulers have no authority from God to do mischief."

Jonathan Mayhew

"Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants."

Louis Brandeis

“Every week's a job interview for us as players.”

“If you win an election, you have to govern to fulfil the promises you ran on.”

“Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing: the result.”

“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.”

“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”

“If you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're losing money, then I have to look in the mirror.”

“As a former prosecutor, I understand the importance of holding powerful people accountable.”

"Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."

Louis D. Brandeis

"The buck stops here."

Harry S. Truman

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit."

Arnold H. Glasow

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."

George Washington

"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it."

Paul "Bear" Bryant

“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity?”

bell hooks

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone."

Thomas Jefferson

"The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."

James Madison

"The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted."

James Madison

“The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.”