Oliver North Quotes

Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

Being responsible, I will direct, and will be responsible for nothing that I do not direct.

Responsibility means nothing if you do not have a forum in which to exercise it.

A necessary act incurs no blame.

Whoever can, should.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

You've got to take responsibility for your actions.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

If you're responsible, and you're willing to take responsibility, we'll give you a pass.

I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

We've got to be responsible, somebody's got to be responsible for it.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

What is done from necessity involves neither censure nor applause