Quotes About Responsibility

Local politics matters a lot.

If you're going to be a sexual predator, be a Democrat.

I'm asking the American people to rise above the noise and the clutter of our broken politics.

As for being a voice in politics, I feel whether you are famous or not, busy or not, it's incumbent upon every citizen to participate in this government in any way we can.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

Young people need to re-engage with politics. The life of democracy depends on it. We've left it to the stuff shirts, and obviously they haven't been minding the store.

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.

In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty .

People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.

In Washington, when you're a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what's right for the people.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.

Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?

American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.

We regret mistakes were made.

Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.

I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.