I do the dishes every night – other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

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.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

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

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.

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.‘

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

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.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

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 a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

The community – more than two billion people use our products, and we get that, with that, a lot of people are using that for a lot of good, but we also have a responsibility to mitigate the darker things that people are gonna try to do.

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

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

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

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

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

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.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

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

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

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

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

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

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.

I’m personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

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

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

Work is making a living out of being bored.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

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.

Every President wants to do right.

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.

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

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

I’ve always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B’nai B’rith at our house.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

I don’t like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I’m kind of a hands-on type of person.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

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

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

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

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

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

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

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.

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.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.