Quotes About Responsibility

The priest should treat those whom he rules as a father treats very young children. We are not disturbed by children's insults or blows or tears; nor do we think much of their laughter and approval.

The families of the missing are doubly burdened: first by the pain of their ordeal, and then by our expectations of them, expectations of a standard of behavior higher than we require of ourselves. As humans, we seek naturally to help fellow creatures in distress. But most of us, whether we are conscious of it or not, expect something back—the flattery of helplessness and of need.

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so then we had to find Jews to turn in so my father wouldn't die.

To me, still being considered a kid, it can't be too much to ask. We should have the same rights as adults did when they were young.

I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel that everything is permitted, that everybody can do what they like.

If we look to people who make no mistakes, who were always on the right side, who never apologized for tyrants or unjust wars, we shall have few heroes and heroines

Solidarity is not discovered by reflection but created.

No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.

What people need to accept is that it is there responsibility to communicate what they need and what they feel, and to realize that they cannot expect someone else magically to make them happy. People want to be made happy, instead of making themselves happy

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me. (To re-election campaign manager Clark MacGregor)

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on civilian casualties in Vietnam

Defer the actual decision until a decision can be made more responsibly, based on actual knowledge, but not so late that it is not possible to take advantage of the knowledge.

One thing most software architects fail to realize is that a software architect is also a leader.

Software architects have to take responsibility for their decisions as they have much more influential power in software projects than most people in organizations.