It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.
Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.
As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.
Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.
Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.
The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.
I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.
But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.
With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.
Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
For Republicans, accepting responsibility means accepting punishment; for Democrats, it means only an admission of error and a suggestion they'll do better in the future. This double standard must end.
The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined.
We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.
I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.
The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.
I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.
For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner.
