Quotes About Responsibility

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.

I think there's few cases in history where the C.E.O. steps down and is also the founder and reports to someone and that works.

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

Until the Saudi authorities who administer the holy sites take concrete steps to protect female pilgrims, we must protect each other. Men must stop assaulting us, yes. But women the world over, regardless of faith, know that until that happens, we are each other's keepers.

It's definitely my responsibility not to stereotype any character, but especially a gay character because of the misperceptions people still have about gays.

So, he continued, if the government controls the established church, then the church ultimately must answer to the people. Thus, he concludes, the people "have the power to governe the Church, to see her do her duty, & to correct her, to redress, reform, establish, & c.

No one forces you to buy a Twinkie. But governments do force you to fight in their wars and pay for their bailouts.

As Ludwig von Mises puts it in this seminal book, modern man "must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police.

the people who attacked Mr. Paul are much more concerned with staying in power than they are with protecting my family and yours.

King consistently argued that rich Western nations had moral and political responsibilities to redress global poverty, something they would never do without world disarmament.

These two were educated men with some pretensions to breeding, and to them and men like them must fall the full responsibility for the calamity which had befallen their country. But for them, the peasants killed by Crauford's dragoons or battered to death upon the bogs might have lived out their lives upon the friendly acres of their native Mayo.

By what right did we lure children to their deaths, caught by a glint of light on metal, a trumpery banner?

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

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Even if Democrats do succeed, it won't save us. While there are many great Democrats and many exceptions to the trends I have described in this book, by and large the story has been a disappointing one. We have surveyed this party's thoughts and deeds from the Seventies to the present, we have watched them abandon whole classes and regions and industries, and we know now what the results have been. Their leadership faction has no intention of doing what the situation requires.

Or is it the other way around—are they supposed to serve us? Let us resolve to ask that far-reaching question again: For whom does America exist? This time around, there can be only one possible answer.

My parents told me, "Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving." I tell my daughters, "Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job."

We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue long, commonly both become guilty.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.