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

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

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

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.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

When I’m around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you’re supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

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.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

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.

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

Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

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

I don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

Tell the children the truth.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.

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.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

I’m not an analyzer. I’ve got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don’t analyze people.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ‚Checkout Time is 18 years.‘

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

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

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

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.

The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

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.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

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.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.