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.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

Morality is contraband in war.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

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

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

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.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

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.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

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

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

Free speech is not just another value. It’s the foundation of Western civilization.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

The price of greatness is responsibility.

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.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

All great peoples are conservative.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

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

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

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

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

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

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

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

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

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

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.

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.

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

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

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.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.