Quotes About Responsibility

American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.

Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

Politics is everywhere.. it is in your shirt.. in your pants.. everywhere.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.