#responsibilities

I need to maintain a home in Derbyshire and in London to be able both to represent my constituents and to fulfil my responsibilities as an MP and as a minister. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#both #constituents #fulfil #home #i

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#appreciation #attorney #both #deep #defense

Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive. ↗

— Theresa May

#around #caring #children #disabled #elderly

It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#fair #gay #gay marriage #horrific #i

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense. ↗

— Don Nickles

#chief #collective #defense #federal #federal government

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#exercise #framework #human #human beings #intelligence

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. ↗

— James K. Polk

#country #degree #depend #family #fear

Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they? ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#burdens #felt #indeed #married #married men

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#i #others #pleaser #responsibilities #seriously

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. ↗

— Stephen King

#assume #care #charitable #debts #education