Quotes about Accountability

If republican government is to be responsible, it must be responsive to the people and answerable to their will. But if it is to be responsible in the more positive sense, it must go beyond mere responsiveness and be able to serve the people's true interests or their reasonable will, even if this course of conduct is not immediately popular.

If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.

You can work all your life and make all the waters in all the rivers on Earth drinkable, but if, when you die, you are not ready to meet God, it doesn't matter.

This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.

A lot of people think that they are leaders just because they have been placed in charge of something - and you're not.

I'm employee No. 3,467. I'm not a Jon Jones, I'm not a Conor McGregor. Guys like us, we've just got to step up to the plate when they call us and do what they ask and get it done.

You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.

Actions have consequences.

I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

remember, you cannot decline and neglect your duty, to your own hurt alone; many will be losers by it as well as you.

God does not need to provide any resources for what you are not doing.