Top 1200 Fiscal Responsibility Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure.

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.'

What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a responsibility any more than the business can. The only entities which can have responsibilities are people.

Fame... it's been a challenge, let's put it that way. It's a privilege and a responsibility, and I'm not sure I carried the responsibility well at times, which is embarrassing. And I've had to look and be disappointed in myself occasionally for how I behaved in some circumstances.

The twin sister to autonomy and freedom is responsibility and accountability. You cannot have one with out the other. If someone is given an area of responsibility, not only must they be set free to do it, they must also be held accountable for what they do. Accountability clarifies freedom. In the teams and companies where you see boundary confusion, power struggles, control, over-reaching of one's line of responsibility, you will also see lapses in accountability as well.

Japan's future prospects depend on ensuring fiscal sustainability over the long term.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a moral responsibility in terms of smoking, not to show smoking in movies.

During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed.

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

Countries with fiscal space should invest in physical and social infrastructure to raise potential growth.

I live in a universe in which blame doesn't exist. I don't believe in being at fault; I believe in taking responsibility for your actions. If I do something wrong, I take responsibility for it.

Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.

It is past time for Congress to get serious about our spending crisis and impose fiscal restraint.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

After careful consideration, we have decided that for our next fiscal year, we'll issue guidance on comparable store used unit sales and on earnings per share only for the full fiscal year. We will no longer issue quarterly guidance. This decision reflects our continuing focus on longer-term store, sales, and earnings growth and on return on invested capital, and our recognition that the performance in shorter-term periods can be more volatile than over the longer term. As we report our quarterly results, we plan to comment on how our performance is tracking against our annual guidance.

Most people think of us as this flamboyant airline, but we're really very conservative from the fiscal standpoint.

Conservative Republicans are back. We're in the fight for fiscal discipline and limited government, and we are on the side of the American people.

The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.

You have to live to the responsibility of the person who has won, which is even greater than the responsibility of a person who has lost.

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .

Some people call themselves fiscal conservatives; my wife says I'm just cheap.

I am in favour of a different Europe, where each state can adopt its fiscal and monetary system.

There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.

I disagree with the analysis that you've put about what happened in relation to the student demonstrations and protests and the incident with the Prince of Wales' car. We're very clear that we have to separate out the political responsibility from operational responsibility of the police.

To be a real man is to be unattached - not from responsibility or justice - but from those dependencies that inhibit responsibility and justice.

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

The fundamental act of medical care is assumption of responsibility. Surgery has assumed responsibility for disease which is largely acute, local or traumatic. This is responsibility for the entire range of injuries and wounds, local infections, benign and malignant tumors, as well as a large fraction of those pathologic processes and anomalies which are localized in the organs of the body. The study of surgery is a study of these diseases, the conditions and details of their care.

I think everybody goes off and does their own vision. And I don't take responsibility for other people's work, frankly. It's bad enough taking responsibility for my own.

The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.

My dad always said you have to value and respect the responsibility you've been given. When I coach, I take that responsibility seriously because I know people have trusted in me, and there are thousands of supporters whose emotions are bound up in what we do.

Together with the social responsibility of businesses, there is also the social responsibility of consumers. Every person ought to have the awareness that 'purchasing is always a moral-and not simply an economic-act.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.

While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

Businesses should be focused on business, and social responsibility should be government responsibility.

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

Although virtually all Republicans campaign on fiscal restraint, how many actually care about it deeply?

Every day things get better because politicians are addressing the fiscal challenges more aggressively.

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that.

I do think a focus on fiscal restraint is a central element of the Tea Party, and thank goodness for it!

Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

Fiscal discipline begins by leveling with people, by being honest, by paying for all of your proposals.

We're progressing on a lot of fronts, but on the aspect of your responsibility - just the very basics of how we treat each other - before we learn mathematics and computers and science in school, and languages and all of this, the basis of it: What is it to be a human? What responsibility do you have?

It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.

Businesses should be focused on business and social responsibility should be government responsibility.

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in terms of the acceptance of responsibility. And the awareness of responsibility inevitably leads either to despair or to confession and grace.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

Chevron has wrapped itself in some pretty good arguments that make you scratch your head. The moral responsibility is certainly at its door. I leave it to other people to figure out whether there's legal responsibility.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Parenthood changes your outlook on life. Makes you realize what things are important. The responsibility is huge. Just to have that responsibility in your hands is a little frightening, but it's exciting at the same time.

Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.

My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don't like. I think that's part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.