Quotes about Responsibility

As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We're not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

I can never fully switch off given my work, but laying on the beach replying to a few emails on my mobile is much better than being stuck in the office.

I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.

Don't be guilty of ignoring symptoms of rebellion when your children are small. Don't simply excuse it as a stage they are going through and think that they will grow out of it. If you ignore it when they are small, you won't be able to handle it when they get older and the rebellion has had time to develop into a strong force.

Of course, being the synagogue president, for me it was a great blessing.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable