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

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.

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

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.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

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.

I let the American people down.

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

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

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

I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it.

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.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

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.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

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.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.

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.

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.

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.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

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 to be motivated.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

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

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

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

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.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

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 time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

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

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.

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

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

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.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

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.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

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.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

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

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

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.