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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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"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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"All hate is the result of people refusing to take responsibility for their own lives."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?"
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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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"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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"I'm not making any excuses. I got my butt kicked in certain games."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Personal Responsibility is the state of being the person who caused something to happen."
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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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"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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"I'm not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight."
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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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"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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"Excuses cost you more than they buy you."
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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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"For how long are you going to continue making excuses? When have you ever solved anything through excuses?"
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"Your life is a result of life`s principles that you either observed or violated."
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"Personal Responsibility of each citizen before the nation, is usually well defined in all developed nations."
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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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"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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"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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"When a bully is held accountable for his actions, his future actions will change. Bad behavior only continues for those who allow it."
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"Your past history is NOT an excuse."
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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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"The churches should be responsible for the faulty value system we now see in our society."
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"Friends, since when has irresponsibility become a Nigerian factor?"
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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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"The time is coming when we have to stand before the Lord to give account of our works."
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"If many good things have not happened in your life, God is not to be blamed."
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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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"People who sit and expects miracles are wicked."
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"And without love, one is a dead man on furlough, nothing but a scrap of paper with a few dates and a chance name on it, and we as well die."
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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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"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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