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.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

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

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

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

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

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.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

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

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.

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

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

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

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

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

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

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

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

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.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

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

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.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

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.

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

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

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?‘

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

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

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

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

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.

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

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.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

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.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

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.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

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

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.

Most emissions aren’t caused by individuals, they’re caused by corporations and states.

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.

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

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.

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.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.