Robert Rauschenberg Quotes

Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.

We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

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.

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning person until they learned whether that person fell in through his or her own fault or not.

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

We all have to take responsibility for what we say and do.

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

The first step into justice begins with the politicians. You have to demand from yourself what you demand from people.

Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?

The world's becoming a better place, and again it is up to us to make sure we're doing the right things.

I must be responsible and accountable for my actions.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.