Quotes About Responsibility

Trump was impetuous and yet did not like to make decisions, at least not ones that seemed to corner him into having to analyze a problem.

The unspoken agreement among them: not only would Donald Trump not be president, he should probably not be. Conveniently, the former conviction meant nobody had to deal with the latter issue.

his view, that he should say nothing—it was not his fault or responsibility, and he certainly didn't want to give a speech that might imply it was;

Sean Spicer, whose job was literally to explain what people did and why, often simply could not—because nobody really had a job, because nobody could do a job.

It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything.… Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.

Trump admired her not because she had the political skills to protect him, but for her pliant dutifulness. Her job was to devote herself to his care and feeding.

The issue was not that he might act precipitously and recklessly because he didn't understand the consequences of doing so. The issue was that he could not comprehend the actual choices that needed to be made in order to act; indeed, he could not even stay in the room long enough to decide on a course of action. For Trump, the fog of war would waylay him before the first command could be given.

Confused to find that the power of the presidency had limitations, he came to see the limitations as his own

We serve at the president's displeasure," another.

As for the looming defeat itself, she shrugged it off: it was Reince Priebus's fault, not hers.

people might conclude that this was just more proof that you obviously couldn't hold Trump responsible for executing on anything, much less an attack on the U.S. Capitol.)

The President didn't seem to realize that in order to make sound decisions there needed to be at least one adult in the room.

The contrast between the two men, Comey and Trump, was in essence the contrast between good government and Trump himself. Comey came across as precise, compartmentalized, scrupulous in his presentation of the details of what transpired and the nature of his responsibility—he was as by-the-book as it gets. Trump, in the portrait offered by Comey, was shady, shoot-from-the-hip, heedless or even unaware of the rules, deceptive, and in it for himself.

few in the thin ranks of Trump's inner circle, with their overnight responsibility for assembling a government, had almost any relevant experience. Nobody had a political background. Nobody had a policy background. Nobody had a legislative background.

Donald, you can't do it. You've made your bed and Steve is in it.

the president always needed someone else to blame; that nothing bad happened to him that was not directly caused by the failure or active malice of someone else.

Still, power provides its own excuses for social lapses.

Liberty did not on any account mean license.

If a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain if, after a while, the law follows his example." —Oliver Wendell Holmes

It's my property and a gift from the Lord. Why should I pay tax on it?

She was learning at breakneck speed that the price of freedom was responsibility.

I don't get it," she said. "No rules on anything, and this is the cleanest park I've ever seen. How?" "People care enough to maintain it," he explained as they went outside again, "and any vandalism is gone in less than a day, at the vandal's expense if he's found, so there is a real motivation against damaging things.

Now I want you to consider: any legal adult here can do anything he wishes with the only restriction being that no one else gets hurt.

Everyone wants "freedom," she decided, but the more free one was, the more responsibility one had.