We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

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.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

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

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.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

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

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

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.

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

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Every President wants to do right.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

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

He who has great power should use it lightly.

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.

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!

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

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

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Some of the stuff I do on the court is what most people think they can do.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

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.

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

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

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

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

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.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

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.

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

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

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

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

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

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

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

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.