Quotes About Responsibility

I think it's important to vote.

Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don't know what they would do.

The one thing politicians will always vote for is more politics, so in 2000 they invented the post of mayor of London without ever really thinking what it was a mayor would do.

I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.

Even if politicians spew confusing, convoluted jargon, these people are still meant to represent me, and the only way that happens is if I stay informed and vote.

I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.

It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.

There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

If you care about potholes, you have to vote. If you care about pre-k education, you have to vote. If you care about women's health care, you have to vote.

My ideal registration system would be an opt-out one, where every single person is registered once they turn 18. In Australia, I'm told, everyone is registered to vote and you pay a fine if you don't vote.

Why they vote for me is irrelevant, but if they do, they're in safe hands.

I would like to say to my friends in Poland: Let's make good choices, vote for democracy.

I represent 740,000 people who live in Brooklyn and in Staten Island. And I have to vote the way I see is in their interests and their interests only.

All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

What makes a politician accountable is not that there are millions of people who vote, but that there are procedures of government that force him to account for himself.

If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.

If members of Congress were to vote to allow a military action, they might then share the blame if the mission were to go wrong. So they demand in the abstract that presidents ask their approval for going to war but in practice prefer to let presidents bear the burden alone.

I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.

I'm not a huge party girl. When I turned 18, the thing I was most excited about was being able to vote for the first time.

So few people vote these days, and I think it's partly because they don't feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help.

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.

Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility.