Quotes About Responsibility

Every president, if you watch what they look like when they come into office, you can see their hair turn white because it's such a hard job.

I did my duty as an American citizen and Army officer.

My obligation is to disclose companies in which I'm an officer, a director, or an investor.

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.

Over the years, I've had a lot of different jobs - newspaper boy, dish washer, naval flight officer, Amtrak board member, Governor and chairman of the National Governors Association - just to name a few. But my most cherished job - and frankly my most important job for that matter - is being a father.

As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.

When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.

As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

Dan Donovan was the district attorney at one point who could not indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo, who choked Eric Garner on video, for the whole country to watch, for the whole world to watch. And he actually, immediately after that, won a seat in Congress. He beat a Democrat to get into Congress.

This is why we have a chief medical officer: to set a norm in society, make judgments on behalf of society, so that individual schools or individual parents don't have to decide.

As an officer in the U.S. Air Force, one day I may be called to give my life for my country.

My father was an army officer who left the forces when I was six and never really fitted back into civilian life. My mother had five children and a mother with Alzheimer's, who lived with us, so I imagined that she had a lot to do.

My mom is a bureaucrat officer.

If I weren't an actor, I would be an IAS or IPS officer.

Do I acknowledge that there are some law enforcement officers that abuse their job? Yes.

One of my officers said to me that Trinidad and Tobago is seen like an ATM card... you come in with the card and you come back out with cash. It cannot happen anymore. It just cannot happen.

Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people.

We must try to understand the true weight of law enforcement officers' burdens.

I think the more we see more officers holding each other accountable, the more we will see people trust cops in this country.

It's like I learned in the military: the officers always ate last. When you're responsible for people, that's how it should be.

I would not put C.I.A. officers at risk by asking them to undertake risky, controversial activity again.

What happened to George Floyd is an abomination. Four Minneapolis policemen used excessive force to cause his death in what appears to be a tragically cavalier fashion. All four officers involved should be held fully accountable and incarcerated for their crimes.

Fighting crime and bringing criminals to justice takes more than law enforcement officers alone.