Quotes About Responsibility

You can choose not to be interested in politics, but you can't choose to be unaffected by it

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

What good would politics be, if it didn't give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

Whoever you are, or want to be, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

Now if you shoot someone, sir, you can get off Scott free. It's the latest thing Mr. Lincoln, can you believe?

What politics is all about today. Blah-blah-blah. The day that stops and the quality of our leaders improve, I will have to retire and go away.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

Since politics — until recently — has been a man's world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.