Mitt Romney Quotes

Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.

With great powers come great responsibilities; with plenary powers come plenary responsibilities.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

But despite the challenges, I love being your Mayor.

If I weren't doing the politics, I wouldn't be doing my job.

To the victor belong the responsibilities.

With great power goes great responsibility.

All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise.

If you accept the privilege of public service, you had better understand the responsibilities of public service.

My responsibilities as the governor are more than my neighbor’s and my family.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

I took an oath to protect the people of Arizona, and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to keep pushing in that direction.

I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.

And then when they picked me as premiere, I don't think I feel, you know, different. For me, the position mean responsibility, but that's all.

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.

Our people expect the best of us. They send us to take care of the people's business, and those of us who take hold of that responsibility understand that's what it's really about.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents - a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Wealth and power don't go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.