Quotes About Responsibility

It is my right and my duty as a politician to speak about the problems in our country.

If I was not serious about politics, I would not have left behind my successful career to become a politician.

A politician can go out and speak for him or herself, but actually for the family it's difficult - although it does bind you.

I'm not a politician; I'm a journalist.

I'm not a politician. My conscience has brought me before you. Give me a chance to serve you.

We get the politicians we deserve and the environment we deserve.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

Democracy is too important to be left to politicians.

We have to save ourselves from ourselves. We have to minimize the effect our own politicians can have on our society. We have to get some rules from the outside.

Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed.

I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.

I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

There are, believe it or not, good politicians.

In a democracy, opposition politicians have a duty to hold the Government to account.

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.