I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.
~By Grace Abbott ~
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 ~
Basically I am a private individual who has concerns about his country and who has resources that give me the privilege - and responsibility - to do something to help my country if I can.
~By Richard Scaife ~
I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.
~By Tatum O'Neal ~
It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.
~By Ajay Naidu ~
Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.
~By John Hoeven ~
To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
~By David Byrne ~
We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble.
~By Stuart Symington ~
I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.
~By Kenneth Lay ~
There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.
~By James D'arcy ~
While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.
~By Kathe Kollwitz ~
The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
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 ~
It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.
~By David Blunkett ~
There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.
~By William Odom ~
It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
~By Michael Crapo ~
The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.
~By David Suzuki ~
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.
~By Coolio ~
I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state.
~By Joe Manchin ~
Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo.
~By Vito Fossella ~
Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.
~By Neville Marriner ~
The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
~By Dan Quayle ~
We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
~By Ted Danson ~
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
~By Philip Pullman ~
The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.
~By Ted Koppel ~
Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.
~By William McFee ~
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
~By Helen Keller ~
I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.
~By Alexis Arguello ~
It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.
~By Stanley Milgram ~
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
~By William Glasser ~
Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.
~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests.
~By Ali A. Saleh ~
The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.
~By Bob Etheridge ~
I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen.
~By Ed Miliband ~
And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable.
~By John Frankenheimer ~
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
As a member of Congress, I believe it is the responsibility of those elected to represent the people at every level of government to ensure that our government works to ensure that every person who wants gainful employment has it.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.
~By Thomas E. Mann ~
Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.
~By Dominique de Villepin ~
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
~By Michael Ondaatje ~
Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.
~By Bill Shuster ~
True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.
~By Richard Lugar ~
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 ~
Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.
~By Thuy Trang ~
And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.
~By Frank Carlucci ~
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not - nor will we ever - monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect the civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
~By Les Brown ~
I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.
~By Bob Crosby ~
One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.
~By William Petersen ~
But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world.
~By Valerie Jarrett ~
For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
~By Kate Bush ~
I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.
~By Andrew Greeley ~
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
~By J. Enoch Powell ~
Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.
~By Steve Buyer ~
I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there.
~By Jon Favreau ~
Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here.
~By Avery Brooks ~
As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.
~By Al D'Amato ~
It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.
~By Estelle Morris ~
My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.
~By Holly Near ~
Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.
~By Julie Christie ~
If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.
~By Janis Karpinski ~
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
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 ~
Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.
~By J. D. Hayworth ~
We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.
~By Dorothy Height ~
The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.
~By Jacques Delors ~
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
~By Brooks Atkinson ~
I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.
~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
~By John C. Maxwell ~
The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act.
~By Amanullah Khan ~
I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.
~By Hosni Mubarak ~
There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.
~By Robin Day ~
Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.
~By Alphonso Jackson ~
I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.
~By Mary Tyler Moore ~
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 am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.
~By Richard Lugar ~
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 ~
I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
~By Anselm Kiefer ~
I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.
~By Jane Byrne ~
Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
The goal of this Nation, I so strongly believe, is to be a preeminent world power. We have to understand what comes with that: The responsibility to be strong.
~By Jeff Sessions ~
It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.
~By David Duchovny ~
I care about this state... and I feel a responsibility to get things done. If we stay healthy and play smart we can be a playoff team. I think we're on the right track.
~By Steve Mariucci ~
It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it.
~By David Attenborough ~
Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
~By Al Green ~
I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'
~By Jim Caviezel ~
If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
~By Richard Bach ~
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