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Accountability Quotes
"Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law."
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"Own your mistakes, learn from them; apologize if you have to, and then, be unapologetically you."
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"All hate is the result of people refusing to take responsibility for their own lives."
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"Stop shouting praise the Lord when you can't handle your life, you can't represent God when you are messing up his reputation."
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"For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before."
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"It is essential to check the quality of work carried out or people let you down."
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"I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals."
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"I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that."
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"But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility."
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"The balance of this world is not upset by accident. It is not upset by those who blunder accidentally into wrong. Evil comes when those who know better, who have seen the pain they cause, nevertheless cause more pain."
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"We must stop calling the looting of our national wealth, a share in the national cake."
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"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged."
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"There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?"
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"Your friend Mikey knew what my touch could do, but he didn't tell me. He turned me into a murderer. Worse than a murderer."I think, said Nick, "they call that manslaughter or wrongful death, don't they? I mean, when it's an accident or out of ignorance, or something.Clarence turned to Nick, studying him with his Everlost eye. "You're a lot smarter than you were back in the cage, Clarence said. "You look better too. Back then you were a thing, now you're almost a person."Thanks . . . but 'almost' is still 'almost.'"Yeah, well, we're all almost something."
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"I don't make excuses, so don't make excuses for me. When I'm being an ass, it's because I have one."
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"No one would argue that we owe a debt of gratitude to the Goliath Corporation. They helped us to rebuild after the Second War and it should not be forgotten. Of late, however, it seems as though the Goliath Corporation is falling far short of its promises of fairness and altruism. We are finding ourselves now in the unfortunate position of continuing to pay back a debt that has long since been paid--with interest..."
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"I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering anger; for to do so insults and trivializes all our efforts. Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge."
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"I'm not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight."
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"I'm not making any excuses. I got my butt kicked in certain games."
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"The attempt of trying to solve a problem without analyzing responsibilities is like trying to understand why a gun was shot without talking to the one using it."
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"By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge."
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"For every choice you make, there is a consequence to face. Choose wisely!"
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"Personal Responsibility is the state of being the person who caused something to happen."
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"Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else."
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"Excuses cost you more than they buy you."
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"Excuses are like butt holes everyone has 'em and they all stink."
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"I always take credit for my acts of cruelty. To do otherwise is cowardice."
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"Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote."
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"No one in this world is in a position to interfere with you. Therefore, do not find fault with the world; the fault is only yours. These are the echoes of interferences that you had caused. Had you not interfered, there would be no echoes that would hit you."
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"The truth is that if you do not join the way of godliness, then you do not have any reason to complain when the ungodly are busy planning and making the pathway of ungodliness."
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"Personal Responsibility of each citizen before the nation, is usually well defined in all developed nations."
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"For how long are you going to continue making excuses? When have you ever solved anything through excuses?"
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"The reaction of whatever you do will continue punishing you (hold you accountable). I do not have to come to punish you, says God."
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"It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land."
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"Friends, since when has irresponsibility become a Nigerian factor?"
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"I paved the path to the very place I don't want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn't put me any place else."
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"To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I've effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I've actually imprinted it in indelible ink."
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"Your life is a result of life`s principles that you either observed or violated."
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"The time is coming when we have to stand before the Lord to give account of our works."
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"It's difficult to accept full responsibility and apportion blame at the same time " you have to choose one."
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"The churches should be responsible for the faulty value system we now see in our society."
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"To punish someone for your own mistakes or for the consequences of your own actions, to harm another by shifting blame that is rightly yours; this is a wretched and cowardly sin."
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"Your past history is NOT an excuse."
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"People who sit and expects miracles are wicked."
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"You cannot be accountable with the products of someone else's mind, no man is known for a skillful hunting by the number of bush meats gathered by another man!"
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"There is an intentional disregard for human health and safety in many government agencies that are tasked with protecting it."
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"If many good things have not happened in your life, God is not to be blamed."
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"The blame game is already a lost game, so don't attempt dressing up to play it!"
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"When people refuse to pay the price of personal responsibility for the problems of the nation, these same people end up paying the high price of irresponsibility, which is often in tragedy and sorrow."
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