I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.
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.
We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.
I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.
As an artist, you know as a person in the public eye, period, you kind of have a responsibility to the younger kids that are watching and emulating what you do.
Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.
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.
Empowering the youth is our responsibility, and the youth will be empowered with more investment on them.
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.
The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
I owe the baby my life. I owe this baby everything and I have a responsibility now.
Though the views of members of the House and Senate are as divergent as the people we represent, we bear the responsibility to work through our political differences and get things done. That's our job.
Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.
In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.
The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.
This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.
It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.
Unless you work in HR, it's not your responsibility to necessarily police and monitor workplace conversation.
I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.
Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.
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.
I think I've got a responsibility to be home a little bit more, be available to my family a little bit more and do some things to help make our country better. I don't know what that is right now, but we'll see.
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.
To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.
I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.
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.
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.
