Quotes About Responsibility

Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.

Politics is a lot like acting. You have to be on all the time.

You know, there's a difference between politicians and leaders. Politicians read poll numbers and compromise. Leaders do what's morally right.

If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home.

When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation.

I don't do my job as minister based on polls.

If a candidate at the MLA or chief ministerial level gets an advantage of belonging to a particular caste while fighting polls, that is one thing. But after having been elected, if you only look after the developmental needs of a particular caste or community, that is a different matter altogether. The BJP has never done that.

We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking, but you can't let them drive you completely.

You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.

The role of a leader is to create a reality and not to be influenced by polls.

People should show up and vote at the polls, unless there's an extraordinary reason not to do so.

The best way to build a house is not from the top, but from the bottom. When you go to the polls, vote from the bottom up.

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

I'd never felt afraid of pollution before and never wore a mask no matter where. But when you carry a life in you, what she breathes, eats and drinks are all your responsibility; then you feel the fear.

I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.

When you see that charger in the wall, you have to now say okay that's, that's contributing to global-warming pollution, I have to pull that charger out of the wall.

Without wanting to sound pompous or clever it is down to me to make decisions on behalf of the side to give it the best chance of being successful.

I want to move people to think and ponder the question of their own healthcare. And it doesn't need to be political thinking.

When I study and ponder moral agency and its eternal consequences, I realize that we are truly spirit children of God and therefore should act accordingly.

I'm a football manager, a football coach; I can't be expected to pontificate on everything.

Parenthood can be very rewarding, but let's face it, so are margaritas at the adults-only pool.

What makes it all worth-while is what I've been able to do for my parents. They were poor and worked all their lives. Like all boys in London, I dreamed of winning the football pool and doing for them. Well, this is better than any football pool. Now they don't have to work. I've given them a nice home and a car. It's a good feeling.

I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'

I drive the car pool - I show up with no makeup and drive the kids to school.