Donald Rumsfeld Quotes

Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future... They have got to step up.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

Are Iraqis ready to carry the responsibility for their country? Is Iraq ready to be its own master? We want to be the masters of ourselves and to carry our responsibilities in this region.

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

Each nation has to find its own path and follow that path at its own speed.

National sovereignty can only be achieved after self-sovereignty.

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I've always been independent. I'll do my thing and go.

I don't need adult supervision.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

Grown men do not need leaders.

I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.

I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

Umm... I don't judge my relationship with Puff or Bad Boy according to other people or past artists. At the end of the day, you are in charge of your career, and you can't depend on no man to do anything for you. I've learned to judge relationships with a person on myself and that person, not what they have done with previous people.

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.