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.

What we will do is we’ll say, ‚Okay, you have your page, and if you’re not trying to organize harm against someone, or attacking someone, then you can put up that content on your page, even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.‘ But that doesn’t mean that we have a responsibility to make it widely distributed in News Feed.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

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.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

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.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

The buck stops here!

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

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

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it’s a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it’s not! You don’t really take responsibility for your work.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

Be the chief but never the lord.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

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

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Respect the burden.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

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.

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

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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