Quotes About Responsibility

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.

Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.

I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics.

In politics there's never a magic wand.

This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper.

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one