It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue.
~By Brian Baird ~
Now, I'm getting a little older, got more responsibility, I don't need to be depressed.
~By Noah Hathaway ~
I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
~By Kate Moss ~
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
~By Amy Tan ~
You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.
~By Elizabeth Gilbert ~
In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
~By Boris Spassky ~
I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.
~By Mark Messier ~
For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.
~By Butch Otter ~
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
~By Peter Drucker ~
Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.
~By Bart Gordon ~
To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.
~By Jeffery Deaver ~
For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.
~By David R. Brower ~
We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
~By Ed Miliband ~
Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.
~By Anna Lindh ~
Well if you were asking my personal opinion on that I think the answer can only be yes but it was missed. Much as I know I'm responsible for a lot of things, I can't wear any responsibility for that.
~By John Anderson ~
I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.
~By Chris Matthews ~
I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.
~By Earl Blumenauer ~
I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
~By Oliver Stone ~
Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
~By Ernest Istook ~
The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
~By Georg Baselitz ~
I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.
~By Diana Ross ~
I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.
~By Brendan Fraser ~
I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
~By Harold Pinter ~
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.
~By Stanley Milgram ~
A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.
~By Knute Rockne ~
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
~By Robert Baden-Powell ~
As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function.
~By Lindy Boggs ~
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
~By Tom Stoppard ~
But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
~By Frederica Montseny ~
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.
~By William Wells Brown ~
People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?
~By Marion Berry ~
And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it.
~By John Bigelow ~
The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined.
~By Allen Johnson ~
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.
~By Wendy Wasserstein ~
Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.
~By Lillian Russell ~
I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.
~By Warren Christopher ~
The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.
~By Robert Casey ~
I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
~By Anselm Kiefer ~
Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
~By Toni Morrison ~
We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.
~By Bob Graham ~
A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
~By Henry Winkler ~
Although I agree that wild horses are a symbol of the American West, I also believe that it is the responsibility of Congress to ensure that these animals are managed, protected, and controlled in an effective manner.
~By Jon Porter ~
The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.
~By Harvey Cushing ~
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
~By Antony Jay ~
As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.
~By Bill Hicks ~
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
~By Joseph Ratzinger ~
Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
~By Dalton Trumbo ~
Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal.
~By Mark Mobius ~
Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
~By Ed Bradley ~
And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
~By John Lennon ~
It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?
~By Joy Adamson ~
I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.
~By Vanessa Carlton ~
Self-preservation is the first responsibility.
~By Margaret Anderson ~
It just seems that you were talking positively about McDonald's, that they are... attempting this healthy lifestyle, and yet when we're talking right now... it seems that you're saying they need to make more responsibility.
~By Maria Bartiromo ~
Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
~By Sally Ride ~
The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.
~By Steve Buscemi ~
I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings.
~By Jose Ramos Horta ~
Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~
In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.
~By Robin Cook ~
Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party.
~By Tom Coburn ~
We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity.
~By Gladys Knight ~
This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.
~By Florence Kelley ~
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
~By Edward VIII ~
The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
~By Oded Fehr ~
The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
~By Bede Griffiths ~
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
~By Ariel Dorfman ~
No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.
~By Daryl Gates ~
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
~By John D. Rockefeller ~
For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
~By Coretta Scott King ~
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
~By Barack Obama ~
It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.
~By Brian Mulroney ~
We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.
~By Michael McCaul ~
We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
~By Vladimir Putin ~
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
~By Wendell Berry ~
I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.
~By Fisher Stevens ~
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.
~By Alphonso Jackson ~
That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.
~By Eric Carle ~
And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
~By Warren Farrell ~
All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.
~By Steven Hatfill ~
Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.
~By Ron Chernow ~
We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.
~By Nancy Pelosi ~
I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.
~By Michael Mullen ~
I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
~By Randy Johnson ~
We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans.
~By Louise Slaughter ~
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