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I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.

Gustav Heinemann

Politician · German · 1899 – 1976

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

Tammy Bruce

Author · American · b. 1962

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

Maggie Gallagher

Writer · American

During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed.

Rick Warren

Writer · American

Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.

Caleb Cushing

Diplomat · American · 1800 – 1879

Just like families must live within their budgets, the Federal Government must live within its means. We have passed appropriations bills that have been fiscally responsible while recognizing our national priorities.

Dennis Hastert

Politician · American · b. 1942

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

David Suzuki

Scientist · Canadian · b. 1936

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

Oliver North

Soldier · American · b. 1943

To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.

Serge Lang

Mathematician · 1927 – 2005

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

W. Edwards Deming

Scientist · American · 1900 – 1993

But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world.

Valerie Jarrett

Lawyer · American · b. 1956

We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.

Lois Capps

Politician · American · b. 1938

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Politician · Canadian · 1874 – 1950

As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation.

Ron Kind

Politician · American · b. 1963

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.

Joan Blades

Businessman · American

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

Stanley Milgram

Psychologist · American · 1933 – 1984

Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

Aaron Sorkin

Producer · American · b. 1961

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.

Richard Lugar

Politician · American · b. 1932

The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act.

Amanullah Khan

Statesman · Afghani · 1892 – 1960

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

Sigmund Freud

Psychologist · Austrian · 1856 – 1939

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

Fay Godwin

Photographer · British · 1931 – 2005

Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.

Blanche Lincoln

Politician · American · b. 1960

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

Joseph Ratzinger

Clergyman · German · b. 1927

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

Ronald Knox

Theologian · English · b. 1888

The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.

Bob Etheridge

Politician · American · b. 1941

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

Margaret Spellings

Public Servant · American · b. 1957

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 · American · b. 1942

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

Jesse Ventura

Politician · American · b. 1952

A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

Charles Edison

Businessman · American · 1890 – 1969

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

Wole Soyinka

Dramatist · b. 1934

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

Roy L. Smith

Clergyman · American

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

M. Scott Peck

Psychologist · American · 1936 – 2005

Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.

George Ball

Politician · American

I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.

John Eaton

Politician · American · 1790 – 1856

We think we have a responsibility. And I think it's important for all of us in the Western world to realize that we've all been blessed a lot and if you go to these parts they don't have a lot, even before the tsunami.

Kevin Rollins

Businessman · American

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

Bainbridge Colby

Public Servant · American · 1869 – 1950

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

Michael F. Easley

Politician · American · b. 1950

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

Bernard Levin

Journalist · English · 1928 – 2004

The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.

Silvio Berlusconi

Statesman · Italian · b. 1936

Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.

Nancy Pelosi

Politician · American · b. 1940

I for one believe that we absolutely need an improved guest worker program, one that holds immigrants and employers accountable and yet still enables us to get a crop out of the ground in south Georgia.

John Linder

Politician · American · b. 1942

A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.

Peter DeFazio

Politician · American · b. 1947

But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.

Frederica Montseny

Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.

David Wilkerson

Clergyman · American

If you were a public official, you had to be accountable, and you had to be reachable.

James Jarrell Pickle

Politician · American · 1913 – 2005

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 · American · b. 1967

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

Brooks Atkinson

Critic · American · 1894 – 1984

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Stanley Milgram

Psychologist · American · 1933 – 1984

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