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.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

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?

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

What we will do is we’ll say, ‚Okay, you have your page, and if you’re not trying to organize harm against someone, or attacking someone, then you can put up that content on your page, even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.‘ But that doesn’t mean that we have a responsibility to make it widely distributed in News Feed.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

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

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

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not 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.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

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

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

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

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

Global energy security is a vital part of America’s national security.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

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.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

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.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Reparations – not just aid – should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and – together with other criminal states – for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

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

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

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

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

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.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

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.

This is America. You’re entitled to believe what you want.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

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.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

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.