Responsibility Quotes

"Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called"

Bill Shuster, Politician

"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"

Anthony Michael Hall, Actor

"A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed"

Ben Stein, Actor

"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 That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq"

Bob Graham, Politician

"The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"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"

Grace Abbott, Activist

"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others"

Lillie Langtry, Actress

"I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever"

Wilfred Burchett, Journalist

"A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"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"

Ted Danson, Actor

"Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen"

Mike Singletary, Athlete

"I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films"

Laura Dern, Actress

"We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility"

Paul Robeson, Actor

"Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility"

Susan Sarandon, Actress

"Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can"

Rachel Maddow, Journalist

"I'm sure other people in the business have considered reasons why they're doing what they're doing, but I do think that if you're gay you have a responsibility to come out"

Rachel Maddow, Journalist

"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"

Steven Hatfill, Scientist

"Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect"

Shawn Johnson, Athlete

"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"

Kate Moss, Model

"Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting"

Paul Harris, Entertainer

"I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others"

James Taylor, Musician

"We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"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"

Frank Carlucci, Politician

"The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases"

David Suzuki, Scientist

"I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility"

Victor Garber, Actor

"No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor"

William Scranton, Politician

"You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility"

Elia Kazan, Director

"Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting"

Francis Schaeffer, Theologian

"Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation"

Carl Levin, Politician

"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"

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

"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"

Bill Shuster, Politician

"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"

Allen Johnson, Athlete

"I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities"

Angela Davis, Activist

"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him"

Booker T. Washington, Educator

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