Responsibility Quotes

"You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!"

"As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people"

Bill Hicks, Comedian

"I will make sure they will bear responsibility for it"

Yevgeny Prigozhin, Businessman

"Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets"

Victor Kiam, Businessman

"The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do"

Ted Koppel, Journalist

"But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife"

Neil LaBute, Director

"We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq"

Barbara Mikulski, Politician

"Now, I'm getting a little older, got more responsibility, I don't need to be depressed"

Noah Hathaway, Actor

"Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility"

James Levine, Musician

"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me"

Julie Christie, Actress

"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"

Warren Farrell, Writer

"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"

Steve Buyer, Politician

"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"

Chris Matthews, Journalist

"So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility"

Dennis Weaver, Actor

"It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no"

Barbara Mikulski, Politician

"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"

Orlando Bloom, Actor

"Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind"

Calvin Coolidge, President

"A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other"

Jerome K. Jerome, Author

"The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"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"

David Attenborough, Journalist

"I love watching my brothers raise their kids and not have to do it for myself and have the responsibility"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished"

Bob Filner, Politician

"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"

Sandra Day O'Connor, Judge

"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"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks"

Ron Chernow, Author

"We children learned responsibility automatically"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"Responsibility educates"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

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