Quotes about Accountability
Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.
— Aesop
The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.
— Aesop
Personal liberty is not personal license.
— Billy Sunday
The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.
— Billy Graham
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
— Epictetus
When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
— Desmond Tutu
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
— John Adams
If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.
— Maya Angelou
My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
— Barack Obama
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
— Barack Obama
That's what bitter people did. Pointed the finger and blamed others. Obfuscation was a way of hiding from their own shortcomings and wounds.
— Rachel Hauck
Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson