Quotes About Responsibility

If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed.

It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.

Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.

You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

We should never forget the government should be held accountable for providing services.

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.