#obligation

It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

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The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#east #freedom #help #into #middle

For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests. ↗

— Susan Rice

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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#confidence #faithful #honesty #honor #live

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts. ↗

— Elihu Root

#case #circumstances #claims #depend #disputed

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#blessed #disease #famine #generous #great

I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis. ↗

— John W. Snow

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Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole. ↗

— John W. Snow

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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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