Grace Napolitano Quotes

If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.

I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment: if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.

You got to do what's right.

As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to well, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to do.

The people who think it a shame when anything goes wrong—who rush to the conclusion that evil could or ought to have been prevented, are those who, in the long run, do most to make the world better.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

Even if the exercise of my responsibility becomes my burden, I’ll bear it. But I can tell you I am going to sleep well tonight knowing I’ve made the right decision.

Politicians are constantly stuck between what is politically expedient and politically beneficial and what is the responsible or right thing to do. It's a tension we all go through.

We can't make a decision based on PR value. We have to do what we think is right.

The secret to adulthood is that 99% of the time, you actually know the right thing to do. Adults make it hard when they are deciding whether to do the right thing.

It is our responsibility, but not burden, to be champions.

It is about the American people. When something is not ready, it is not working, it is not right, then we owe it to them to do the right thing and say, 'Let's hold.'

If not us, who? And if not now, when?

If not now, then when ? If not you, then who ?

Congress needs to step up. Congress needs to do their job, and Congress needs to do their job now.

If I'm not doing anything to make a change, then I'm responsible.

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin. We think him more a savior who shoulders our responsibilities than him who shoulders our sins. If instead of making decisions we have but to obey and do our duty, we feel it as a sort of salvation.

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.