Quotes About Responsibility

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to do things that we know we can't do.

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.

The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.

When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.

When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

The people of America at some point are gonna have to realize that relying on government to fix everything is foolhardy.

Businesses should be focused on business and social responsibility should be government responsibility.

Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

Good government has to mean less government.

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

Sometimes there are no good choices for government.

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.

We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.