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I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

Barack Obama

President · American · b. 1961

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Les Brown

Businessman · American

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 · American · 1914 – 2004

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

George Pataki

Politician · American · b. 1945

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

Lakhdar Brahimi

Public Servant · b. 1934

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Peter Drucker

Businessman · American · 1909 – 2005

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Les Brown

Businessman · American

Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.

Yitzhak Rabin

Statesman · Israeli · 1922 – 1995

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

Lyndon B. Johnson

President · American · 1908 – 1973

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

John D. Rockefeller

Businessman · American · 1839 – 1937

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Martin Luther

Leader · German · 1483 – 1546

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

Horace Mann

Educator · American · 1796 – 1859

And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility.

Daniel Greenberg

Educator · American

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

Alan Keyes

Politician · American · b. 1950

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Napoleon Hill

Writer · American · 1883 – 1970

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Malcolm Forbes

Publisher · American · 1917 – 1990

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Charles de Gaulle

Leader · 1890 – 1970

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

Christiane Amanpour

Journalist · English · b. 1958

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Voltaire

Writer · French · 1694 – 1778

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Alan Paton

Novelist · South African · 1903 – 1988

That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer.

John Prescott

Politician · British · b. 1938

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

Joseph Rotblat

Physicist · Polish · 1908 – 2005

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Henry B. Adams

Historian · 1838 – 1918

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Activist · American · 1815 – 1902

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

Elia Kazan

Director · American · 1909 – 2003

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

Gale Norton

Public Servant · American · b. 1954

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

Garet Garrett

Journalist · American

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

Richard Bach

Novelist · American · b. 1936

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

John Stuart Mill

Philosopher · English · 1806 – 1873

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Viktor E. Frankl

Psychologist · Austrian · 1905 – 1997

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

Omar Bongo

Statesman · b. 1935

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

Garrett Hardin

Environmentalist · American · 1915 – 2003

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

Christine Gregoire

Politician · American · b. 1947

I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.

Eduard Shevardnadze

Politician · b. 1928

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

John Stuart Mill

Philosopher · English · 1806 – 1873

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Virginia Woolf

Author · British · 1882 – 1941

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Robert Baden-Powell

Soldier · English · 1857 – 1941

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

George Pataki

Politician · American · b. 1945

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

Jacques Delors

Economist · French · b. 1925

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Helen Keller

Author · American · 1880 – 1968

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

Ella Maillart

Writer · Swiss · 1903 – 1997

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

Bill Shuster

Politician · American · b. 1961

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Don Marquis

Poet · American · 1878 – 1937

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

Ron Chernow

Author · American

It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.

Nelson A. Miles

Soldier · American · 1839 – 1925

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

Statesman · English · 1874 – 1965

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

Don Marquis

Poet · American · 1878 – 1937

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Alan Perlis

Scientist · American · 1922 – 1990

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