#obligations

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative. ↗

— George W. Bush

#iraq #meet #obligations #prefers #prepared

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#bought #cannot #create #else #gratitude

If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred. ↗

— Peter Welch

#already #ask #authorize #authorizing #bills

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#induced #institutions #internationally #into #measure

I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country. ↗

— Carre Otis

#alone #breaks #country #delight #family

To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#choice #constituted #maintain #matter #obligations

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#before #betraying #connections #country #feeling

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#because #computers #created #credit #default

For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige. ↗

— Robert Welch

#american people #beautiful #carrying #compassionate #courageous

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#asking #entails #forever #i #i am