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 am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.

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.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

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.

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

Defending peace is the duty of all.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

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.

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it’s just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

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

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

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

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.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

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.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Be the chief but never the lord.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don’t matter. They ask police to scoop up the bad guys only for the courts to immediately release them. They turn us into a bad joke.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

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

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.

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.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

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.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

Reparations – not just aid – should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and – together with other criminal states – for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.

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.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don’t get that.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.