Fred F. Fielding Quotes

I feel like I have to be responsible for what I'm participating in or putting out into the world.

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

From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.

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.

Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.

There are no consequences for Snowden breaking the law in Snowden's World. It's where his massively inflated ego dictates the rules and determines which he will follow.

I feel like personally, it's on everybody to hold each other accountable.

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.

Our interest isn't in just serving the guests and hosts. We need to serve the entire community. If that means we have to take action against the host, we will.

I remember some of the biggest mistakes I have made really, really well.

There's a lot of things I could've done better, and I regret not doing better. I do know I always gave it my best shot.

To me, I look at situations and try to look back and see if there was anything I could have done.

I've seen other people getting into trouble for glamorising breaking the law.

It is hard to speak the truth about valued national institutions. But when they are not fit for purpose, we must speak out.

How do you defend inaction in the face of crisis? How is that defensible for anybody?

It's time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions.

Respectability in this country was a bad word because people did things who were in respected professions that let down the entire nation, and we're washing away their sins yet.

Looking back, I made my mistakes and I understand and learned from them.

Sometimes, when life moves along, you're presented with situations where you find it necessary to speak because so many people either seem to be afraid to or, more sinister, are unwilling to face things and let things go and worry about their own situations.

I think, like anyone else, I made my mistakes.

The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.