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

The ‚peace movement‘ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, ‚I like your tie,‘ to a man… or, ‚I like your country because the weather’s good,‘ or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

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

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.

Every President wants to do right.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

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

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

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

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

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

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

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.

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.

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.

I think I’m one of the most patriotic people that I’ve ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way – not by donations; I work at it.

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.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

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

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

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.

I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation.

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.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

After you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who’s spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

It’s a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

America is the greatest country in the world.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

DACA recipients risk a lot to come out of the shadows & sign up, but many will tell you the risk is worth being able to live and work in the only country they’ve ever known as home. DACA recipients serve in our military, work in Fortune 100 companies, and conduct important medical research.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks – that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.