Accountability Quotes

One cannot have any respect or regard for men who take the position of the reformer and then refuse to see the logical consequences of that position, let alone following them out in action.

I don't want to be in a situation where I have to leave some other commitment or worse I am rude and someone else has to support my stuff. I stopped coding for Facebook a while ago.

It's not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

I think it's true that big government institutions should be scrutinized, big non-profit institutions should be scrutinized, big universities should be scrutinized. It just makes sense.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy tobe motivated.

We look forward to working alongside internet companies, but indeed, if they do not choose to act, we will be forced to continue to act in ways that protect Canadians and we will have more to say about the kinds of tools we will be using in the coming weeks and months. They have to step up in a major way to counter disinformation. And if they don't, we will hold them to account, and there will be meaningful financial consequences.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the cheques.

The press has become so dishonest that if we don't talk about, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people. Tremendous disservice. We have to talk to find out what's going on, because the press honestly is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control.

If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.

There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life.

Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for your life. What is your life? What is all life? What is every flower, every rock, every tree? Energy.

If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.

The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.

Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.