Quotes About Responsibility

It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his.

What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

In the course of my life I have developed five little democratic questions. If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?" If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.

Deane carried the blood of so many Aboriginal people on his hands it could never be scrubbed away, not from the man himself or the town that carried his name.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don't act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don't have the right to do that.

The single hardest thing for a practicing politician to understand is that most people, most of the time, don't give politics a first thought all day long.

On these issues, the public fib. They say they want increased spending, and in theory they do—but in practice they think someone else should pay for it. However, there it is. As I used to say, the public aren't always logical, but that's their prerogative. They do expect their government to be, nonetheless.

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, 'the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,' and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

The right to demand the best and refuse the worst and do so not by virtue of your wealth, but your equal status as citizen, thats precisely what the modern Labour Party should stand for

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?

I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a shit. What's worse is that you're more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my village... But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action.

A child needs his parent at all times, Father. Not just when life is smiling down upon him" -Rovender

But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action. You are a leader, Eva Nine. A hero. And you are my WondLa" -Rovender

Maybe answers are found not in observing but in doing. Doing the right thing" -Eva Nine