Work Responsibilities Quotes

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

What is your one-sentence job description?

People need to know what their jobs are.

You really do think about it institutionally; this is your job, and to some extent you benefit from having a job to do at a moment like this. You have things that you have to make happen. And you don't have time for the emotional reaction that might otherwise occur if somebody was just sitting there watching these events unfold and had no responsibilities.

When I was 16, I used to drive huge loads of laundry in a three ton truck. I would turn round at night to drive back and see the band in a place north of Toronto called Dunn's Pavilion. I would drive that truck all day and they drive back and all the way until one day I wrecked the truck. I fell asleep and wrecked it. I was OK and so was my helper. I called my dad and the first words out of his mouth were, "are you OK?" I was really lucky I had a kind father.

My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.

It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'

Between work and your kids and your spouse or whatever situation you have in your life. I think balancing all of that seems to be a huge situation.

Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.

I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me.