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There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility. -- King Felipe VI
We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of Justice's operations. -- Sibel Edmonds
Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them. -- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility. -- Terry Eagleton
People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other. -- Jane Jacobs
... the danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximatedto equality with men, in social dignity and in opportunity for public responsibility. -- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi
If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of what you genuinely think is in the public interest... put the public interest above the vested interest. -- Graeme Samuel
In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility. -- George Bernard Shaw
Cosmopolitanism has offered me an ethical perspective and a conceptual framework with which to read the _signs of our times_ as a theologian and intellectual who has a public responsibility for constantly offering a way to engage in this rapidly changing public world. -- Namsoon Kang
A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public. -- Steve Squyres
Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome. -- Thomas E. Mann
Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching. -- Bart Gordon
It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself! -- Robert Dale Owen
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
Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents. -- Martin McGuinness
The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses. -- Keith Haring
As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility. -- Patti Smith
As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function. -- Lindy Boggs
I feel strongly about HIV/AIDS and children because I'm a famous singer, a public figure, and I'm a female and a mother. I have the responsibility and the passion to help out and do whatever I can. -- Peng Liyuan
But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world. -- Juan Cole
But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate. -- Bob Schieffer
While we all respect the solemn responsibility of our law enforcement officers to protect the public, we must also safeguard the rights of Missourians to peaceably assemble and the rights of the press to report on matters of public concern. -- Jay Nixon
The price of power is responsibility for the public good. -- Bill Vaughan
Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes. -- David Titley
Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public. -- Steve Squyres
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain -- Robert Kennedy
If one is to use public funds he must accept a responsibility to the public. -- Thomas Francis, Jr.
I will resign as party leader to take full responsibility for troubling the public and party supporters. -- Seiji Maehara
I think the (brawl) made the league and the players more conscious of our responsibility to the public. -- Joe Dumars
The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed -- Anita Roddick
No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business. -- John F. Kennedy
I'm now becoming a bit more cognizant of what's going on and the responsibility of being a public figure and also being white and being in Hip-Hop. -- Asher Roth
I believe in the democratization of the arts. What do I mean by that? I think museums, with some exceptions, have a responsibility to educate a much broader public. -- Eli Broad
[The media] are using a national treasure--that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses. -- Amy Goodman
I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives. -- Mark Shields

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