Quotes About Responsibility

I'm going to be a new dad and that's my priority.

As Governor of New Hampshire, my top priority is the safety of our citizens.

You look around the world in 2013, and you say, 'How many prime ministers or presidents are in prison?' One or two. 'How many generals or bankers?' Two or three. 'But how many writers?' 850 or so.

He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

I think corporations are a whole lot different than people. I mean, I don't know a corporation would be put in prison. I do know people would be put in prison.

We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.

I had a lot of friends who were also football players. Some of them ended up in prison, some of them had injuries. I think of my group of friends, I am the only one who is a professional footballer.

The magistrate who originally sentenced Eric Cantona to prison said that millions of young people saw him as a role model and tried to copy his behaviour. I wonder if this is true.

I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen.

I have the responsibility to tell everybody that I am not the only political prisoner in Hong Kong and that there will be more coming.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.

Pakistani prisoners are safe in Indian jails. We are a responsible government.

People think the restaurant industry is hard and takes no prisoners, but so does baking, so does retail and so does bus driving. You can't blame your job.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

You can't have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I'd rather have the ten dogs.

I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.