Quotes about Responsibility

This is the moment we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

Look at yourself before you pass judgment. Don't make someone else clean up your mess.

Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

We better win this thing or the country is screwed.

The people back home, they didn't even know anyone else who had ridden in an airplane before. So they expected everything from him. 'Ah, Barack, you are a big shot now. You should give me something. You should help me.' Always these pressures from family. And he couldn't say no, he was so generous. You

In few other professions are you required, each and every day, to weigh so many competing claims—between different sets of constituents, between the interests of your state and the interests of the nation, between party loyalty and your own sense of independence, between the value of service and obligations to your family. There is a constant danger, in the cacophony of voices, that a politician loses his moral bearings and finds himself entirely steered by the winds of public opinion.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

And you won't have to wake up at four in the morning," she said, a point that I found most compelling.

We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.

I couldn't rid myself of the sense that Roy was in danger somehow, that old demons were driving him toward an abyss, and that if only I was a better brother, my intervention would prevent his fall.

As much as Tim blamed himself during the next morning's postmortem, I recognized it as a systems failure

Duty compels us to care about people that we will never meet.