Responsibility Quotes

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

I don't personally feel a responsibility to be a role model, but as the actor, I do.

It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.

And, as you recall, last year, people were asking us, don't vote on the bill until you read every part of the bill. So, as a good attorney and as a good legislator, I think it's my responsibility to read the amendments.

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

I think that when you are in the limelight it is part of your obligation to be a good role model. A lot of kids look up to you, and you are given a God-given talent, so it is your responsibility. It isn't hard to deal with. I never have to think twice about doing anything.

It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work.

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

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.

What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right.

I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

The most important thing is to just do it. If I work at a higher level I have responsibility to do better than what I've done before. Sometimes the best happens - beyond possibility. Just do it. Can't worry about it.

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state.

Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

I owe the baby my life. I owe this baby everything and I have a responsibility now.

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

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.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.