Janet Reno Quotes

I would like to be remembered as a responsible human being who handled business while also taking care of his family.

My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.

Tom Bradford is a lot like the real me. He's a man who always put his career second to his family. As long as everything was OK at home, he was OK, too.

My main priority in any job is when is the soonest I can get back to the three people I love most in the world.

I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.

My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

It is a very great misfortune that persons employed in the most important Departments should ... have separate interests from the publick whom they profess to serve.

I want to work. I'd be unsatisfied if I couldn't be pursuing this. But I love my family more. This is really life.

Most federal employees perform their tasks honorably and well.

I was covering the Manchester attack and was asked to stay another day and do the programme from there. But I had promised my little boy I would be at his sports day, and I had this really sharp sense that I needed to be there.

Whatever consequences come as a result, in terms of work, I'm fully prepared to embrace because it's a priority to me to be a mother.

Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign.

I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

Financially, I do not need to work unless I want to, and whatever film I accept has to be right for me in the sense that it should justify the time I spend away from my husband and kids.

If I sat back and decided to sell the product of my father and my grandfather's work, like a leech, you know I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror... I want to be able to look at my father in 10 years' time and say, 'I'm proud of you, and you should be proud of me.'

You should not confuse your career with your life.

Just staying true to yourself and staying true to your passion. Following your gut.

Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did.

I stay balanced by remembering to prioritize. What is most important should never be railroaded by the "tyranny of the urgent." My relationship with God, my devotion to my husband, my responsibilities to my children, loving others, and, of course, remaining grateful for the blessings that I have. Like getting to do what I love for a living. And trust me, I am.

The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work.

Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.