Quotes About Responsibility

My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.

Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.

I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications.

People don't want to see me having a bad morning. They have job problems, financial problems, family pressures, kids to get off to school. The last thing they want to wake up to is someone showing them the same problems. So maybe that's the one time I am forced to act.

Leaders get things wrong. Of course they do. They have imperfect information. They face competing political pressures. Ultimately they are human.

Every field has its pressures and stress factors.

There are a whole load of different pressures that go with being the head coach, manager, whatever you want to call it. And everybody who's done it, there are times when it becomes too much and you need some sort of break while you figure out how you de-stress, if you want.

I'm ready to accept the pressures of captaincy.

It's an added layer of duties and responsibilities, but it takes away from a lot of the arbitrary pressures that I've felt before. I just enjoy every moment more, and that's the beauty of being a mom.

So we've never had a President of the United States ask anything of black citizens. And I think the reason for that is they've all felt that if they presume to do that, that they would be stigmatized as racist.

I've been offered the role of Franklin Roosevelt, and I wouldn't presume to undertake it.

I try to be a better dad and husband than I do pretend rock star.

Americans have a choice to make: higher taxes or fewer health care entitlements. We'll probably have to choose both. But as each of us marches toward death, we can't pretend we can have all the health care we need, paid for by taxing Bill Gates a little more.

I want a politics that doesn't need to pretend to be holy or perfect or infallible. I want a politics that gets on with it.

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.

We, in America and Great Britain, have never had to live with evil and ignore it, or pretend it wasn't happening, as people did all over Europe, and indeed, even in Germany herself.

It's all really nice to have my pretend Secret Service people paying me respect, but the moment I walk in the door, it's back to being 'Mom.'

I was a very lame skinhead. I had to be in by 8:30 P. M., so I used to pretend that I had a baby sister I had to go home and baby-sit.

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, 'Do what I do.' I think it's a little pretentious to say, 'I'm a role model'; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

I would never want the responsibility of being the prettiest girl on screen; it's too much.

Extinction isn't pretty, especially when you know it's coming and do nothing about it.