No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

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.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

He who has great power should use it lightly.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

My success rate speaks for itself.

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

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

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

Stand-up is hard.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

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.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

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

For revolutionary Cubans, to cooperate with other poor and exploited peoples has always been a political principle and a duty towards humanity.

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

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

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.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

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.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

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

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

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

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

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

A great fortune is a great slavery.

‚Leading man‘ just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

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

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

I can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.