Dick Morris Quotes

But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.

You must remember, my own philosophy is that you don't belong only to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it.

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

I think the research evidence on the benefits of early childhood programs for the local economy is extremely strong. However, the moral and political choice is still up to us, as citizens and as voters.

It is the nature of men to be bound by the benefits they confer as much as by those they receive.

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

Every worker receives from society as much as he has given it.

That is how our nation has been built - by a partnership between citizen and government, between individual and society, between a family and the wider community.

When you come to Denmark, you have the chance to live in a free, peaceful country with access to free education, free medical aid and the opportunity to work. To benefit from that requires responsibility. If you don't assume that responsibility, it is a breach in trust.

You have to recognise your responsibility to your community for your actions. Liberty doesn't mean that you are not held accountable. Without accountability, there can be no freedom. I know it seems like a paradox.

Citizenship is not a transaction where you put your taxes in and take your services out. It is a relationship.

We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

Get people to think about the benefits of government rather than taxes.

An open society invests in people and new ideas, rewards talent and hard work, values dialogue and learns from dissent, operates to high standards with transparent information, looks for common ground, sees problems as opportunities for creative change, and encourages those who are fortunate to help others get the same chance, because service is the highest ideal.

Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility …

Freedom requires civil responsibility.

Favors granted always become defined as rights.

It is never exactly clear what makes something a quid or a quo.

You cannot just exercise your rights and get away without performing your responsibilities. Understand that it should not be about 'me' but rather 'us.'

We want to create a society that is working for us and with us - and we're working for society, not against it.

I favor a system where students in publicly funded institutions make a commitment: if they do well in the private sector, they will revert a certain percentage of their income to the education sector; and if they devote some years to public service, their debt will be forgiven.

Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community's well being. If you're dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.