Quotes About Responsibility

Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it is so beautiful, I have some sense of, 'Hey, that's where I work, and Jimmy is President now.' But day in and day out, it's a job.

If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big difference. Hollywood and the NBA or NFL could step in, too. In England they have an event called Book Day, where every child receives a pound to use at any bookstore.

It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.

There's a big gap between 'Click the link to send an e-mail to your congressman' and 'Chain yourself to the White House.'

With Ronald Reagan in the White House, somebody had to look out for those who were not so fortunate. That's where I came in.

I guess I don't like the fact that my life is becoming less and less my own - the prevailing attitude that you have an obligation to deliver yourself to the public. Actually, you're delivered to the public whether you like it or not. I guess if you don't like it, you should stop doing what provokes it. In my case, that's acting.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.

Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition... and does not harm consumers and innovation.

It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.

When it comes to the population explosion, there are two questions on the table. One, is our population growth going to kill us all? And two, is there any ethical way to prevent that from happening?

People are going to go out and do things after games and celebrate and do that kind of stuff. Everybody cannot be everywhere, and nobody can prevent crazy things from happening. Stuff is going to happen, and you've just got to deal with it.

I may not be able to prevent a million girls or boys from being trafficked, but I can at least help out 10-15 people I know.

We used our brains to create and program them, and now we have to continue to use our brains to prevent computers from taking over our lives.

I see my parents getting older and I think 'How can I prevent what is going to happen to me?'

Crimes happen, but some are preventable.

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.