Quotes About Responsibility

You do hear a lot about 'player power,' but I'm one of those who believes the manager is there to take control, to be in charge.

I'm taking charge of my own business because I don't trust anyone else to do it.

Being in charge of a team is just like having kids.

Everyone has to be in charge of their own destiny.

I have never been afraid of being in charge, whether I have been coach, manager or caretaker.

I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'

As mayor, I'm charged with a big-picture agenda.

Well, when you're on the television you constantly get asked to work with charities and it's really hard to work with all of the charities that ask you, and of course we all want to give back.

The character of a people may be ruined by charity.

If you're the president of a charity, you can't take the money out of the charity and use it to buy things for yourself. And you can't take the money out of the charity and use it to buy things for your business.

My father was always not concerned about the wealth I have, but every year he would ask me, how much have you given in charity? And how much taxes have you paid?

My fight isn't with Charlie Hales. My fight is with the problems he has failed to address as mayor.

Kids don't come cheap.

I'm obviously going to own up that I cheated and I got caught.

Cheating is one thing - it's not OK - but at least if you cheat and you come out and you get caught and you're like, 'Look, I did this and it wasn't right. This is why I did it. I'm not going to do it again, I learned my lesson.'

If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.

When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.

After my kids go to bed, I check email. It's about having that balance.

We can't create change until we recognize and check our own actions.

How can I go from this poor college kid one day and the next day get a check for $7 million. How's that going to affect me?

But the people who give me the best reality check are my children.

The best part of being on your own is not really having to answer to anybody. Not that when you're in a relationship you should really have to answer to somebody then, either. Just the freedom of not checking in with someone all the time is nice.

When I got to college, my coach let me handle everything, from calling the plays to changing protections to checking in the run game. He let me do absolutely everything at the line.

At the end of the day, you're loyal to the people writing your checks.