Quotes About Responsibility

Peace is a national issue, not only government's responsibility.

Every decision in government is so important, especially when it comes to the military where thousands of people can lose their lives.

When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

I don't know of any government leaders that are killers.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

Well, first let's say that the fundamental responsibility of any government is national security - in the preamble to the Constitution, provide for the common defense and insure domestic tranquility.

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much.

No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.