Quotes About Responsibility

What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.

People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.

Being a mother makes everything more urgent.

The environment, stabilizing the climate, needs urgent attention from all of us.

Every man who has sat in the Oval Office has felt the short, sharp shock when an ordinary day in the highest office in the land shifts from pomp and ceremony to urgent briefings, immediate choices, crucial decisions where lives are on the line. It's not something that may happen to a president. It's something that will happen.

We need to take urgent action on climate change.

Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods.

Right now, I don't have the same urges as other women when they see a baby. When I see children, I see responsibilities, which I don't think I'm quite ready for. I feel the same about puppies. They're cute for a second, but there's a lot of responsibility involved.

People tend to say Christians are always judging, but the word of God convicts Christians and urges them to obey God's commands.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Things will only improve when the people - all of us - say to authorities, 'I will hold you responsible.' We should all be showing up at city council meetings, lighting up every community with activism and mobilization.

To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence.

Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage.

New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.

I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.