People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

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

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

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

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

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

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

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

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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.

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

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

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.

When at last we are sure, You’ve been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

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.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

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

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.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

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

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

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.

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.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

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

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

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.

Many people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.

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.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

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

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.