Quotes About Responsibility

I guess it's from going to Virginia Military Institute. I'm a good person to follow orders.

Knowledge is not a guarantee of good political behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

If you've got no base, it's very difficult to function as an MP. You cannot be a 'virtual' MP, you must be a proper one.

Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It's about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we're educated.

The average American husband has relinquished his responsibility as head of his household. Though the wife is partly at fault, he is mostly to blame. I'm not suggesting that women should return to the subservient position before their emancipation when they were virtually slaves of their husbands. But freedom for women can be overdone.

Although I receive a small salary from Apple, I do virtually no real work at the company.

Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.

Having served as both attorney general and deputy attorney general in the Justice Department, I had responsibility for supervising the FBI, working on virtually a daily basis with its senior leadership.

Cruz named Former Texas Senator Phil Gramm as his economic guru. This guy virtually crashed the U.S. economy. Gramm is largely responsible for two bills which led to the speculative bubble which popped in September 2008.

If we don't accept the uncomfortable proposition that every perpetrator of virtually every act of evil in our history has been a human being like us, then we actually foreclose the possibility of understanding how we do this to one another and therefore make it impossible to figure out how we might prevent these things.

When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Integrity is a very important and an almost indispensable virtue that all leaders must possess. This is especially true in the Philippine context because we Filipinos really respond to leadership by example.

If you are a politician who styles yourself as a model of family virtue but are having a secret affair, you have no right to expect it to remain secret.