- Life
- |
- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Experience
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Congressional staff members do have a considerable amount of responsibility. But in my experience, the loyalty of the vast majority of staffers to their bosses leads them to be honest brokers of information for the members they work for.
- Fiscal Responsibility
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.
- Differences
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that presidential candidates actually have a responsibility to point out substantive differences: to point out perspectives that are different.
- Past
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
- Nov 07, 2020
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
- Educating
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.
- Opportunity
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
- Opportunity
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was the sixteen-year-old driving everyone to bingo and shopping. It was quite a responsibility. It made me the man in charge of a lot of things.
- Day
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- He
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it.
- Think
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.
- Myself
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
While we have to take personal responsibility for our actions, I have a great deal of empathy for people who are unconsciously racially biased, and indeed count myself among their number.
- Believe
- |
- Nov 07, 2020