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  • I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state. -- Joe Manchin
  • In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts. -- Mallory Ortberg
  • A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma. -- Marlene Dietrich
  • To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality. -- Ayn Rand
  • Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything. -- Pat Robertson
  • We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore the reality that cooperative counterterrorism activities are a key to our national defense. -- John O. Brennan
  • I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it. -- Wallis Simpson
  • Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty. -- Chris Christie
  • We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. -- Albert Schweitzer
  • If you don't abdicate or misuse your power, pressure takes you into realization. -- John de Ruiter
  • Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms. -- Beth Moore
  • The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians. -- Roy Fuller
  • It is imperative that good people, men and women of principle, be involved in the political process; otherwise we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
  • What comes to pass does so not so much because a few people want it to happen, as because the mass of citizens abdicate their responsibility and let things be. -- Antonio Gramsci
  • I'm concerned that young people, far too often, abdicate their responsibilities of learning and adapting and give that over to people who may not always have their best interests at heart. -- Len Elmore
  • The one way, possibly, out of this is for [Bashar] Assad to abdicate and plead, perhaps to Russia or somewhere else. Would save another wave of civilian casualties if we could get him to abdicate. -- Rand Paul
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