- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Responsibility Quotes
What it means to own your part.
This set looks at responsibility as something personal rather than shared, whether that means revising a script until it works or declining to answer for anyone else's choices. It connects to the themes explored in our Decision quotes.
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- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval; to inform.
- Executive Branch
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence community - the intelligence community, CIA, covert action. My literal responsibility as director of CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval, to inform.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really believe in the power of cinema, and with it comes a responsibility to impart some sort of message for the better.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've done a terrible job of hiring, supporting, and retaining the people tasked with the difficult responsibility of teaching our children.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined.
- Fiscal Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.
- Obligation
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- Nov 07, 2020
My major obligation or responsibility is to work to integrate gender issues throughout the work of the State Department.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
- Ethic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.
- Ethic
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- Nov 07, 2020