Topic · on the record
Responsibility
Every quote the archive has tagged responsibility.

The Crime Bill was a mistake, and I take responsibility for it.

Protecting our environment is real. We understand that. It is something that is incumbent upon us as Members of Congress...

Members of Congress who obstruct efforts to close the facility have abdicated their responsibility to the American people.

If we are to defend religious freedom, we must remember that when any religious group is targeted, we all have a responsibility to speak up.

Still, there's a lot more everybody can and should do.

We should never do their work for them.

I have directed this action consistent with my responsibility to protect U.S. citizens both at home and abroad.

It is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers began.

We can't put the entire onus of the problem on law enforcement.

We all have a responsibility to try to end this grave problem.

I have no greater responsibility than the security of the American people.

I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict.

We must restore the basic bargain that built our country—the idea that if you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead.

The only way that we're going to be able to succeed in that task is if all of you step up.

The promise that our parents and our grandparents made to us... that's what we now have to pass on to our kids and grandkids.

It would be the height of irresponsibility to leave a digital backdoor wide open to our cyber adversaries.
