Quotes About Responsibility

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

We have put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenryand said, you don't want the jobs that are available.

The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's what keeps me up at night.

The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.

'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.

There was an old Woman who lived in a shoe She had so many children Her government subsidy check came to $4,892.

Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon.

It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.

If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct.

It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so.