Quotes About Responsibility

It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.

I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, but by assuming our responsibilities.

From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.

Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plant.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.

The state was made for man, not man for state.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.

I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli governments responsibility.