Quotes About Responsibility

I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.

My job is to make certain that I've done what I was asked and my department has done what we were asked to do by the president and the first lady and the State Department. I believe that we accomplished that.

My major obligation or responsibility is to work to integrate gender issues throughout the work of the State Department.

I think that the press has a duty and an obligation to report on local government, state government, federal government - to be aggressive, to do its job. And its job is to report on whatever it's covering.

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'

Serving ice cream isn't exactly like serving in state government, but what I learned guides me today.

State government is filled with dedicated, diligent professionals.

I have worked as a party secretary in Kerala. I had been assigned the responsibility of party secretary while I was a minister in the state government.

I am not against the state government. I am pro-people... Whenever the government goes wrong, I will speak up for the people of the state.

The citizens of Missouri have high expectations for their state government. And, they should. They expect us to move our state, its economy, and its infrastructure forward, while fulfilling our most important duty - ensuring the safety of all Missourians.

Law and order is the responsibility of the state governments.

A press statement may be given with a very good intention, but it says nothing beyond it. If it comes from corporations they run, then it is corporate social responsibility (CSR). That's different from philanthropy. CSR is a lot of shareholders, including me.

We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

'We, The People' is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.

I would rather be an aware citizen, and if an opportunity were to arise where I would have to make a statement, I would happily do that.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

I think it's important for comedians to do our little part. I don't do it carelessly. I do it thoughtfully. I don't try to just shock. I try to make a statement.

I think we have a high responsibility to base any criticisms that we have on a fair and honest statement of the facts, and that nominees should not be subjected to distortions of their record, taking things they've done out of context.

If I put a statement about being the best interviewer into the universe, I must now live up to it, or at least be held accountable for it. Either way, I'm going to work that much harder.