Quotes About Responsibility

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.

The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.