Actions and they're ability to cancel out the words that just exited your mouth. . .

People have said for years that "actions speak louder than words". This phrase has been on my mind a lot today and it is completely true.
If you pay any attention to anything in the news, you'll see that what people say and what people do are 2 completely different things. And that people pay attention to what people do more than what they say.
If the president SAYS that he is done with war (no, I'm not trying to start any sort of Obama-related argument here) and SAYS that he is bring troops home and then he deploys everyone and everything we've got, what are people going to pay attention to? They're going to pay attention to that fact that he just deployed everyone and everything we've got. They're going to pay attention to what he DOES.
The same goes with regular people.
High school kids, for example. I knew a guy that I thought to be an incredibly nice person. Everyone said nice things about him. But, one day, I saw him in the halls and he was making fun of another guy and pushing him around because that guy was openly gay. You can understand why, instantly, I lost all respect for him.
You can talk the talk but you have to walk the walk in order to get real respect. Say what you mean and then do it. You can speak at a drug free assembly but if you go home and smoke a bunch of weed, it cancels out everything you just said.