Famous Quotes & Sayings

This meeting instills the personal responsibility into everyone so we don't rely solely on government. Too many times we want to blame somebody else instead of taking responsibility ourselves. It's our job to take care of our families and neighbors,

There was more than enough blame to go around. I think we need to look all the way up the chain of command.

There was fear. It had been a practice in the past (in India) to blame Pakistan for anything like that. But this time, nobody blamed Pakistan.

There were definitely some that went closer to saying, 'Don't blame me,' as opposed to saying, 'This is the process,' ... I think that probably should set off more red flags as the language got stronger.

There were breakdowns, but everybody has a job to do. I didn't stop the puck and I'll take the blame for that.

There were some questionable calls at the end, but don't blame it on the officiating, things just didn't go our way.

The Republicans will take the blame because it's happening on their watch.

There'll be plenty of time for the blame game.

It is tempting to blame the softness of core sales on the surge in gas prices, but we think it is too soon for that.

Wayne Allard

It really hasn't surprised me that we've gotten into the blame game. I don't think this is the time to fire people. I think it's the time we need to help people.

It's all about accountability. If they're going to raise the rate, they can no longer blame the fluctuation of the real-estate market. They can't blame the speculators. They have no one to blame but themselves.

Steve Elmendorf

They're in charge of the government. To the extent voters get worried about this, they're going to blame the party in control. I really think there's a chance we could win the House in 2006.

They really deserved asylum. The conditions that Chavez is subjecting people to - he's torturing people. There's one person to blame for all of this, and it's Hugo Chavez.

Eleanor Clift

There's blame to go around but in the end, the federal government is our last defense and it's the failure of the federal government that has people in this country worried.

There's enough blame to go around -- the city, the police and the family,

There's enough blame to go around, and the president has taken his share. But we can't keep looking back and sniping at each other. It's unraveling all the good will we have built up with state and local officials.

It's a time-consuming process. It would not be unusual to find most people do not want to do that indefinitely. It's also a process where the rewards are largely internal; school board members get an inordinate share of the blame when things don't go well and very little of the credit when things do go well.

It's a team thing. I'll definitely take the blame for my mistakes.

It's a team loss, but I blame myself, too, today. We win as a team and we lose as a team, and this loss was very disappointing. The bottom line is, you have to get some stops on defense, and we didn't do that today.

Larry Sabato

It was callous trying to shift the blame to the victim. His entire PR staff should be fired just for that.

It was a very poor performance in that first half. We've got nobody to blame but ourselves for that. ? I was as disappointed with that first half of play as I've been with any half since I've been coaching at Liberty.

It was a tough sun; you can't blame that on anybody.

It's baseball. You can't expect the umpires to get them all right. But I don't blame them. If I coached a perfect game, we'd win every time. It's over and win or lose we're friends.

We probably played the worst game of the week tonight. It's definitely a big disappointment. I put a lot of blame on myself. I came out flat. I didn't play as well as I wanted.

When I was an executive ... relationships within the company and at board level where characterized by openness and trust. We were mercifully free of company politics and blame culture.

The person sins, then blames Satan for it

William Shakespeare

Alas, the frailty is to blame, not we For such as we are made of, such we be

We have no one to blame but ourselves. Now is the only time to prove ourselves. Otherwise, we'll go home.

When we blame, we give away our power.

We were devastated and in shock, but we had no one to blame but ourselves.

The refs are under a microscope. So we can't blame them.

Bill Parcells

Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.

Offensively, we've been struggling early in the year. We didn't have a lot of guys on base. When we do get hits, we don't have guys on base. We made a lot of mistakes and there were plays we should have made. We can't blame it on the weather. They made all the plays and we didn't.