"A new era of responsibility is here"
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The subtext is strategic. Responsibility is a word that can scold Wall Street, discipline government, and reassure anxious moderates all at once. It suggests limits: budgets matter, rules will be enforced, consequences will land. But it also carries a paternal edge, implying that someone has been irresponsible - an opposition, a predecessor, the market, the culture - and that legitimacy now belongs to those willing to accept restraint.
Context matters because this line reads like post-crisis language: the recession era’s demand for competence, accountability, and seriousness after years of perceived deregulation and swagger. Jarrett’s legal background sharpens the implication that governance should look more like compliance than charisma. It’s a values statement that doubles as a power move: defining the moment as “responsibility” sets the terms of debate, making dissent feel like recklessness.
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"A new era of responsibility is here." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-new-era-of-responsibility-is-here-99631/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.





