Birthday announcement (25 November 2006); " Pinochet Takes 'Political Responsibility' for Actions of Chilean Dictatorship http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/25/AR2006112500834.html" (26 November 2006) Washington Post <br class="br">2000s
Gordon Brown (1951) British Labour Party politician
On the Damian McBride email scandal reported by The Daily Telegraph <br class="br">" Brown 'sorry' over e-mail slurs http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8002085.stm", BBC News, 16 April 2009 <br class="br">Prime Minister
Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007) Indian politician
Source: Attar Chand The Long March: Profile of Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar http://books.google.co.in/books?id=YY4I36ZbJ7gC&printsec=frontcover, Mittal Publications, 1991, p. 18
“I can not avoid my responsibility.”
Paavo Väyrynen (1946) Finnish politician
Presidential Election Campaign 2012
Emma Watson (1990) British actress and model
The "Burke quote" she uses here is a common but disputed attribution.
UN Speech on the HeForShe campaign (2014)
Context: You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing speaking at the UN. And it’s a really good question. I've been asking myself the same thing. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better.
And having seen what I’ve seen — and given the chance — I feel it is my responsibility to say something. Statesman Edmund Burke said: “All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.”
In my nervousness for this speech and in my moments of doubt I’ve told myself firmly — if not me, who, if not now, when. If you have similar doubts when opportunities are presented to you I hope that those words might be helpful.
Jean Paul Sartre book Being and Nothingness
Part 4, Chapter 1, III
Being and Nothingness (1943)
Context: I am responsible for everything … except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world … in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.
Fritz Sauckel (1894–1946) German general
Quoted in "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal" - Nuremberg, Germany - 1948.
Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor
As quoted in Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984 (1984) by James Bentley, p. 223
Bill O'Reilly (1949) American political commentator, television host and writer
2006-02-09
Using a Funeral to Make Political Points
The O'Reilly Factor
Fox News
Television
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184331,00.html
In response to civil rights leader Coretta Scott King's funeral.
“[I take] full military responsibility for the actions of the army in the war against terrorism.”
Jorge Rafael Videla (1925–2013) Argentinian President
As quoted in anon (May 18, 2013) "Argentine 'Dirty War' leader Jorge Rafael Videla dies". ABC News.
