If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn’t financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it’s a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it’s not! You don’t really take responsibility for your work.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

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.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

We are not spending the Federal Government’s money, we are spending the taxpayer’s money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money’s worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

The buck stops here!

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don’t matter. They ask police to scoop up the bad guys only for the courts to immediately release them. They turn us into a bad joke.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

I let the American people down.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.