Quotes About Obligation

We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.

I had a contract with England, it was going to finish, and in football you can't really wait until your contract runs out.

When I wake up in the morning, I know I have to do this, this, this and this. It has to get done and that's what you do.

There really isn't a day when I wake up and DON'T have to be someplace.

When you are doing a TV series, people tell you when you have to wake up and when you have to have lunch, and I don't like it.

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.

You pay your bills and you take care of your family, or you're not a man.

If you're able to pay your bills, you pay your bills. It's as simple as that.

Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.

No matter how good a deal sounds, if your name goes on the bottom line, you need to understand it and be sure you'll be able to pay. You are responsible for yourself forever. Forever.

The bottom line is, I've got a wife and three kids. I've got bills I have to pay.

I'm not a believer in bringing back the draft. But I am a huge proponent of national service.

The baby boomers have dropped the ball on their burden of responsibility.

We are also trying to fight successfully in the European Union against anti-Semitism. Because of Austria's history, it is, from my point of view, our obligation to do that.

I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt.

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

To suggest that we can't pay our debts - that's absolutely not true.

One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.

After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

I was brought up a Roman Catholic, so when I was a child I was frogmarched to church every Sunday.

I grew up in a very Christian household. We went to church every Sunday whether I wanted to or not.

You sign a contract, and you abide by the contract. And sometimes my turn would come around on Sunday. Even though I didn't like to play baseball on Sunday, it was my job.

My father converted from being Southern Baptist when I was very young. He was determined that we get to Mass every Sunday, which served as the foundation for everything else. You simply do not miss Mass. Period. When the father of the family says we go, then we go.