Quotes About Responsibility

We need folks to help us, as opposed to, 'Let's find who to blame, and let's try to bury those people.'

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.

If it's something that you are opposed to or you don't want your children or family to see, then do not watch it, and the market can send a message.

For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To defend the rights of those who have none was the reason I became a journalist in the first place. Now, I see the human rights movement as opposing human rights.

It's my job regardless of what the opposing team does, which I really don't care, it's my job to go out and make the right plays.

I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.

Throughout your whole career, there's a bunch of people you might have to kiss. Say there's this character opposite you, and you might not be into her - or him, personally. You just gotta' do it. That's your job.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

I don't want anybody, whether it's my grandchildren or any of our employees' grandchildren, to have to apologise for working for Ford Motor Company. In fact, I want the opposite. I want them to look and say, 'What a difference we made!'

I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.

Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

It's our job as Liberal Democrats to be an effective opposition - and an increasingly tough one as well.

An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.

We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.

In Washington, particularly, the loyal opposition has a job to be the opposition. But you can't stop there.

The government takes the opposition day debates incredibly seriously.

For better or worse, when I was director of public prosecutions I had to deal with every challenge that came up, and come up with an answer. Being in opposition, you're not taking the decisions; you're saying what you would do if you were in power, and that's deeply frustrating.

If there is not competent Opposition, the government that comes to power won't have anyone to hold them accountable.

To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.

It's not enough to just say 'I'm not racist' because you're not a purveyor of overt racism. If you benefit from the system, knowing that people are being oppressed and affected by it, then you are racist.