#obligations

Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But participation in the euro involves rules and obligations, which we must consistently meet. Greece belongs to Europe and Europe cannot be envisaged without Greece. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#cannot #consistently #defend #envisaged #euro

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. ↗

— Ron Paul

#bringing #constitutional #economic #liberty #moral

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#i #life #mundane #music #obligations

It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#community #high #high time #his #hussein

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#confidence #faithful #honesty #honor #live

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts. ↗

— Elihu Root

#case #circumstances #claims #depend #disputed

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#human #human rights #much #obligations #rights

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#any #apologize #better #family #first

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bought #credit #default #did #funds

If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect. ↗

— Jules Massenet

#agreements #beautiful #i #music #must