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And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings. -- Sibel Edmonds
I generally leave the details of fiscal programs to the Administration and Congress. That's really their area of authority and responsibility, and I don't think it's appropriate for me to second guess. -- Ben Bernanke
The ambiguous, gray areas of authority and responsibility between parents and teachers exacerbate the distrust between them. The distrust is further complicated by the fact that it is rarely articulated, but usually remains smoldering and silent. -- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Tibetans must take full authority and responsibility for developing industry, looking from all different perspectives, taking care of the environment, conserving resources for long-term economic health, and safeguarding the interests of Tibetan workers, nomads, and farmers. -- Dalai Lama
I leave everything to the young men. You've got to give youthful men authority and responsibility if you're going to build up an organization. Otherwise you'll always be the boss yourself and you won't leave anything behind you. -- Amadeo Giannini
Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others. -- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
If you see someone taking responsibility, give that person authority. If you see someone looking for authority, watch out! -- Loren Cunningham
You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility. -- Byron Dorgan
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. -- Benjamin Franklin
I'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be? -- Wilbur L. Creech
My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility. -- Dalai Lama
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. -- Stanley Milgram
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it. -- Malcolm Forbes
Anyone who takes responsibility for getting something done is welcome to ask for the authority to do it. -- Seth
Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions. -- Antony Jay
Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction. -- Donald Rumsfeld
We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority. -- Mahmoud Abbas
There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other. -- Haile Selassie
In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own. -- Virginia Postrel
I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me. -- Kelley Armstrong
To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced. -- Dean Acheson
Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social costs. -- Henry Giroux
Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority. -- D. H. Lawrence
Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense. -- Louis A. Johnson

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