Quotes About Responsibility

A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

Good government is good politics.

If we want the nation to move ahead, then we'll have to leave behind the thinking that Government will do everything...we all need to collectively devote to make our country move forward.

My first warning is to my government officers to not presume citizens as thieves.

I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!

No, I'm not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money.

It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists.

The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.

But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.

And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.

I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.

Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.

Our government is a gift from God, who calls us to be good stewards of it.

We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.

Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.