Carlos Mesa Quotes

I've never run away from my responsibilities.

I do not like to avoid responsibilities and feel that I am responsible.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

You can't walk away from your responsibilities and commitments.

I take my responsibilities very seriously.

I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.

I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.

I just try to do the things I'm asked to do.

When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down.

I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

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

We children learned responsibility automatically.

We've been helping you out in Alaska in considerable ways, and you're walking away from the responsibility, and we're not going to allow that.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

You need responsibility in life.

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.

Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never do less.

[President] McKinley gave [Lt. Andrew Sommers] Rowan a letter to be delivered to [General Calixto] Garcia: Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the eternal, there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college in the land. It is not book learning that young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing—"carry a message to Garcia.

I hope you keep them.

When this country makes a commitment, we see it through.

I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.