If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
I think what they're looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible.
That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.
The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.
My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.
I'm going to find whoever is responsible for me sleeping out side with outside without pillows and kick them in the shins!-Enna
I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.
As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.
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.
A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the characters' dilemma and act, in a way, on their behalf.
The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.
As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.
Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.
Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.
What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say.
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.
If the spirit of wonder & curiosity stays alive in us, then surely we will always have new questions, and always expand our creativity in response?
There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.
In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.
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.
