Quotes About Responsibility

We must again carry the burden of our people and shoulder our commitment to leading them to the promised land.

Implementation of promises is as important as making them.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.

Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep.

If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.

Anybody that's asked, I've counseled that they not expand Medicaid eligibility. I've been critical of any expansion because you know what Washington does. It promises something for a finite period of time, and then it leaves you on the hook.

I'm committed to fulfilling my promises to my people, including my pledge to engage in constructive interaction with the world.

I want to make sure that I fulfill the promises that I made to New Mexicans. That's extremely important to me.

You can't make promises you can't keep.

In our family business, the Edelman children must earn their way - there were and will be no promises without performance and leadership. That may lead to some skinned knees, but it is certainly the best way to learn life lessons.

We do have promises to keep. And my dad and Barack Obama are keeping them.

Unfortunately, we don't have a bankruptcy process. Suppose the state actually just gets to the point where it cannot meet all of its promises that it's made. We might need a way to figure out, O.K., well, who's not going to get what they were promised? This is what we had to do for the city of Detroit.

As the manager, Ive told my players that if anyone is sin-binned for backchat to referees or officials, they will miss the next two games - with no promises that they will get back in the side.

There's something very interesting about world leaders promising hope and then carrying through on that.

Any promising young white man rich enough to theoretically afford a giant oil painting of himself gets to remain young and innocent forever, and none of his actions have any consequences, whether there is magic involved or not.

I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York's cause.

Our job as a business is not to promote a political agenda. That's not what we do.

My father doesn't like to promote me every time, and he wants me to build my own image.

We need to promote an ethic of work. And there's no way one guy or one company is going to be able to do it. It has to be a big hot mess - public, private, government, NGOs and smart alecks on the TV talking about it.

I know my responsibilities as an actor and am aware that it is equally important to promote my films as to act in them.