Quotes About Responsibility

I was leader of the Opposition when Vajpayee was PM. We attacked policies, not personalities, neither inside or outside the House.

The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.

We think the government is running the country, but it is just a policymaker. Unknowingly, people are inviting the government to run their lives. The only business of the government is to come up with the right policies.

We can't always wait on the government to sort out all issues. I think they set policies, they set the rules, but we all have a duty to help as much as we can.

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy.

I chose not to go into politics and policy. Those policies are my husband's job.

I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm a foreign policy person, and to have a chance to serve my country as the nation's chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough.

The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.

I want my kids to be polite and respectful, stand on their own two feet.

There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world.

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.

I'm not being cynical, but I have to find work that is allowing me to pay bills and keep our lives going in a way that we're used to and trying not to betray my political beliefs while I'm doing it. Listen, it's a tough thing to do.

My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.

The first day you're a leader is the beginning of the end of your political career.

If the price of continuing my political career is to be complicit in a really bad thing then that's not a price I'm prepared to pay.

I want to start thinking about other people and the political climate. I can't sit here and write an album about myself. It just feels wrong.

The Office for Budget Responsibility correctly stay out of the political debate and do not assess the long-term costs and benefits of E.U. membership.

The Congress leadership always denied responsibilities to me both within the government and within the party organisation... They would always tell me my image as a Hindu leader was a constraint on my capacity as a political leader.

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.

Business leaders should show what our political leaders seem to lack - that is, a common-sense view of the times.

It takes heart to be in political life.