Quotes About Responsibility

When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.

My first responsibility is to be selfish for New Jersey.

I don't want to be the mayor of New Jersey.

I partied too much. I was still 19, 20 years old. I was coming from a little small city where there's 40,000 people, so being in New Jersey, New York, being with a big All-Star like Stephon Marbury, he's calling me every night to go out with him. I didn't know how to say no.

Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.

I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song like 'Middle Age' or 'Responsibility' or 'I Just Work Here,' and it's about how bleak life can be. But it's real.

So many parents these days are totally cool with their kids living on the couch the whole time. It's like a new thing with families. But you've got to leave the nest and get out there.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.

There's nothing in the world like getting up in front of a high-school classroom in New York City. They won't give you a break if you don't hold them. There's no escape.

It's very easy, when we're reading those articles on the 20th page of 'The New York Times,' to distance ourselves and say, 'It's someone else.'

We do have our mistakes sometimes, like 'The New York Times' does, like everything does. We correct them.

I say to people, 'Do you have any idea how hard it is to do that, to write 7,000 words in 10 hours or 12 hours for the front page of the 'New York Times' and to know that they trust you so much that that it's going to lead the paper?' It's hard. I mean, it's a feat.

I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark.

As soon as I got out of law school, I went to inner city Newark, New Jersey, to become a housing rights lawyer, because people fought for my housing rights, I was going to pay it forward by fighting for others.

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.

From what I hear, it's a normal thing to feel guilty as a mother, especially when trying to fill the needs of a newborn along with maintaining what you had with your first child.

I'm at an age now where I have a newborn baby and me and my wife want to settle. I'm tired of going on loan.

I consider this to be one of the biggest jobs in the country and to get the opportunity to be the manager of Newcastle is not something I'm going to give up lightly.

If you manage Newcastle, you have to deal with the consequences.

The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands!

To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting.

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.