Lack Accountability Quotes

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

A slave has never maintained an action against the violator of his bed. A slave is not admonished for incontinence, or punished for fornication or adultery; never prosecuted for bigamy …

In the South, people in power feel they don't have to answer to no one.

Unfortunately, as hate speech has proliferated, no one in Poland has been held responsible. The police take people's statements and dismiss them. This tacit consent has demoralized weakened minds.

An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do say that they have a problem I don't know that I believe 'em.

There is a veil of secrecy that is descending around the administration which I think is unseemly

The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.

Writing is such a 'pretend' profession. Nobody is counting on you at all. You can't 'pretend' to be a lawyer or a teacher. It takes a lot of grit to continue.

The Obama administration already claims the power to wage endless and boundless war, in virtually total secrecy, and without a single meaningful check or constraint. No institution with any power disputes this. To the contrary, the only ones which exert real influence - Congress, the courts, the establishment media, the plutocratic class - clearly favor its continuation and only think about how further to enable it.

I think, in some ways, Michael Jackson is out of touch with reality, and I don't think he has people around him who can say, Michael, can't do this. Michael, you can't do that. Michael, you can't say this. You know, I think he has been so big for so long that he can do whatever he wants to do.

Because these credit agencies operate in the dark, they are allowed to be terribly unfair and unaccountable.

No opposition politician has ever taken responsibility for his or her election failures.

Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.

What you find when you live in the United States, you live in the West, is that when somebody fails, it's never their fault. They always like to blame somebody other than themselves for a failure.

I was talking to my friend and he said his girlfriend was mad at him. I said, "What happened?" He goes: "Well, I guess I, uh... I guess I said something, and, uh... and then she got her feelings hurt." That's a weird way to phrase it: "She got her feelings hurt. I said something, and then she..." Could you more remove yourself from responsibility? "She got her feelings hurt." It's like saying, "Yeah, I shot this guy in the face, and then I guess he got himself murdered. I don't know what happened. He leaned into it."

There’s no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It’s always someone else’s fault. Usually people just blame the victim.

I think associate director jobs are the best in the world, because you can do what you want and not have to take responsibility for it!

There are far too many politicians out there who take the wrong position and stick with it and never admit that they should do something different.

Even Merrick Garland can't get up and give a press conference in which he says, "Give me a damn vote." We just hear silence.

The fatalism attributable to the Koranic law may well be the basis for Mohammedan decadence. If the man is unsuccessful, he does not look to himself. It is the will of Allah. If the murder was committed, that’s who was preordained. It is the same with sickness; it is the same with everything -- it is Kismet!

Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

There are no checks and balances if the government is wrong, if a private entrepreneur makes a mistake, he goes bankrupt, the losses are cut, if he bets wrong, he loses, if the government bets wrong, they just get bigger, they just appropriate more money, it's a bottomless pit, because they either get it from the tax payers or run it off a printing press.

I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.

The most striking defect in our system of government is that it divides political power and thereby conceals political responsibility.