Quotes About Responsibility

How can you create a team and bring all these egos together? The main goal for Manchester United is for them to play well - and not have a player saying, 'I play well; I scored two goals'. Because if I score two goals, but three goals go into our net, then we lose.

It's my damn duty and obligation to do everything possible for Europe to find a united path.

Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?

The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.

At United, they teach me about things off the pitch as well, how to deal with stuff with your family and how to be a man. That part is very important, not just the football side but off the pitch as well.

It's almost a responsibility for all the people of the United Kingdom, regardless of race, color or creed, and an understanding that you have an individual connection with each and every one.

If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

The United Nations is calling this the decade of action, from 2020 to 2030, because if we don't take immense action, there will be irreversible damage. If we don't, we are looking at an increasingly difficult world to survive in.

I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.

When the United Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own action.

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.

I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.

It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.

Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.

The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best.

If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

I very much hope that the United States will finally... realise that they can no longer act as the prosecutor, the judge, and the executioner in every part of the world and that they need to cooperate to resolve issues.

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.