Quotes About Responsibility

Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.

We're all self-made, but only successful people admit it.

When you're not successful, people look at the driver and say, 'what's wrong with him?' and sometimes the drivers look back and wonder 'what makes you think you're not the problem?'

I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.

If everyone knows the role they play, and they do their job - executing it well and with enthusiasm - it comes together successfully every time.

We are also trying to fight successfully in the European Union against anti-Semitism. Because of Austria's history, it is, from my point of view, our obligation to do that.

I am extremely proud to be appointed England manager. However, I am also conscious getting the job is one thing; now I want to do the job successfully.

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

Messrs. Washington and Lincoln would be appalled and saddened by what their successor, President Obama, and the modern Democratic Party are doing to the nation they dedicated their lives to keep alive.

I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt.

Every global leader that I have seen has at least agreed on one point: I do have the world's most difficult job. But I hope to make it easier for my successor.

I don't think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, 'A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.'

We're forfeiting our power if we succumb to apathy.

I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.

The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.

I wouldn't want to be a mother that put blinders on and didn't see what was going on with my child. There can be huge consequences to such a thing.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

We have to grow in such a way that our growth is not at the cost of something else.

One of the greatest struggles of bureaucracies is they get built and created, but they design themselves in such a way that they can never be at fault. They can never be wrong, they can never have made a mistake and they never want to relent.

When God calls you to do something, and when it's put upon you in such a way that you're boxed in, it has to be.

People are absolutely free to criticize the government and protest, but their protests should be in such a way as to improve the situation in the country and their life.

At 12 years old, I raised a premature baby cow on our farm because her mom had died. I bottle-fed it every day, let it suck on my chin, and babied it until it was stable.

I'm not green-fingered, I'm grey-fingered. I suck the life out of plants.