Quotes About Responsibility

I believe that everyone should participate in democracy and enjoy doing it.

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.

I wanted to participate in the political responsibilities of an American citizen. I wanted to vote. I wanted to be a full member of the American community. I made America my home country. It's my identity in many ways.

If you are gonna participate in a band, you've got to be a band member in good standing, and you've got to think about the needs of the whole.

Democracy is something you have to participate in.

I decided that instead of making jokes about politics, I need to take part in it, and therefore, I can't make jokes and participate.

I feel like I have to be responsible for what I'm participating in or putting out into the world.

Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'

We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department.

Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and gang bangers off the block. My father was very clear: 'I've got guns too, and I'll kill you just as much as a rival gang would.' And he meant it. He was a man of many facets and complexities.

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one.

I've made no secret that although I loved being a legislator, I particularly loved being a chief executive.

We don't want our MPs to become greedy like those of other parties.

Bachelor parties are for the married guys.

I'm more disciplined now. The days of late-night parties are over.

I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.

You will never see my sons in parties. We keep to ourselves and try to do whatever we have to do.