Quotes About Responsibility

I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

Stupid people are ruining America.

I will do whatever is necessary to make better the stupidity on my part - and therefore go after those who are acting stupid themselves. It's not popular. You don't make friends when you do that. And I couldn't care less.

It's not my style to blame anybody else.

I always thought of myself as inadequate. Kids of divorced parents always feel that way - that, on some subconscious level, they're responsible.

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Even if information is not marked classified in an email, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.

As an artist, I feel a certain responsibility to write about difficult subject matter.

When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.

I think governance is about giving people an opportunity to engage with you on subjects that you are responsible for, believing in people's capacity to deliver, and allowing them that platform plus project their work.

I'd rather see us as citizens than subjects in the 21st Century.

It's important that comedians talk about difficult and dangerous subjects; you have to be very careful that you don't just hear the subject heading and think, oh, this is bad, they shouldn't be talking about that. You have to hear what's being said.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

We all learn submission because we all have 'bosses', whether we're presidents of companies or not. The easiest place to learn it is in family.

It's neither appropriate nor responsible if I drastically amend a policy after one, two, or three submissions of opinion.

A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

I believe that it's easier for the woman to submit. That's biblical... God has equipped men to take on much more responsibility.

In India, all public servants employed by the central or a state government or any other public authority under their control are required under the relevant civil service rules to submit returns of movable and immovable assets owned by them and their immediate family.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Journalism has a check-and-balance effect to those in power, and those in power submitted themselves to it.