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.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

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.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

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

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

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.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

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

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

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

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.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

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

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

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.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

Work alone is noble.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

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

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

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

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

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.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

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.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

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?

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

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

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

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.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

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

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