When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

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.

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

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

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

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

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.

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

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

He who has great power should use it lightly.

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

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

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.

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.

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

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it’s a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it’s not! You don’t really take responsibility for your work.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

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.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

We all have the duty to do good.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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?‘

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

The buck stops here!

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

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

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

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.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

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.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

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.

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

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.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

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

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

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.