Quotes About Responsibility

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.

Politics is a good thing!

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.

He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.

I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.

Politics does not end the day of the election.

Politics is too important to be left to politicians.

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.

You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.

A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.