#responsibility

We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs. ↗

— Doug Elmendorf

#care #care costs #changes #contrary #costs

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you. ↗

— John Irving

#begin #connections #first #i #important

In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#concert #done #fact #festival #i

But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#barack obama #communities #country #each #families

My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others. ↗

— Kevin Johnson

#grandfather #help #help others #how #instilled

I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do. ↗

— Randy Johnson

#better #carlton #conversation #days #everyone

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#everything #gymnastics #lessons #life #life lessons

We children learned responsibility automatically. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#children #learned #responsibility

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. ↗

— Helen Keller

#each #filled #great #great mass #justice

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#full #granted #nation #pause #political