George Lakoff Quotes

I come from election, I come from the people. I owe gratitude to our people. I do everything for the good of the country and the people.

I have a responsibility to devote my energy to my country and my people.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Our God who created all of us is the God who calls all of us to care for one another. I think that's going to be one of the big, big challenges of the future, helping refocus on the needs of others.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.

So the smart brain must be balanced with a warm heart, a good heart -a sense of responsibility, of concern for the well-being of others.

If we don't take care of each other, who will? ... I don't want to ever say, 'I should've done something.'

As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn't come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others.

Social solidarity must rest instead on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility can be realized through the principle that every able-bodied adult holds a position within the caring economy - the part of the economy in which people care for one another - as well as within the production system.

In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it.

Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority.

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.

In America, we take care of each other, we support one another, and we look out for our neighbors.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

People have a huge desire to be listened to, for politicians to take the time to understand their problems.

If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.

But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy.

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.