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We have to be responsible in what we say as leaders.

The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public.

You have a responsibility as a locally elected deputy, but you also have a responsibility as the head of government.

I have a responsibility as an elected governor to govern and when I say govern, that means to make sure that our citizens are safe and we need the federal government to step up and do their job. They need to secure our borders.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.