I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

It’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we’re going to continue to help.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

The most important question in the world is, ‚Why is the child crying?‘

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.