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

They didn't want to fix the problem. They wanted to fix the blame,

They made their decision, and I've got no one to blame but myself. They gave me a chance, and I blew it. Now I've got to help the team any way I can.

They had me there for seven years and the way they treat me at the end, I knew that they would probably get rid of me. I don't blame the Padres. I don't blame anybody over there. They just did what's correct for their organization. It was (correct) for them as well as for me.

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

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

It?s easier to blame immigrants than to stand up against the entire system.

It's easy because the euro is so visible, ... And besides, in the tech sector, you can't really blame oil prices.

It's easy because the euro is so visible. And besides, in the tech sector, you can't really blame oil prices.

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.

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

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.

It was because it was easier to blame me, ... You know, 'Why is he rocking the boat?' In those days there was a lot of that stuff. He was asking for it. He did it on purpose. He was begging for it. It was just conventional blaming-the-victim stuff. I don't like the term 'victim' when applied to myself. Certainly I felt the guilt burden had shifted from the people doing the violence to the person on the receiving end of the violence.

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

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.

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

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 just something I enjoyed. I loved the idea of one-on-one. You can't blame on anyone but yourself.

It's key for us to score first, and we didn't do that tonight. I'm proud of the way my boys kept fighting. But I didn't do a good enough job getting them prepared. I take the blame for that.

You have to make some tough decisions. We've been struggling for five weeks, and I just feel like we need to make a change. I told Doug I feel badly. Everybody on offense should, because he's the one who gets the blame for it.

To have been five in front and then Colin to just shoot 71 to win is pretty poor, ... Colin did play pretty poor, but I needed to shoot 75 to win basically and to not do that after playing so well all week is very disappointing. I feel that I let him win. I could have put more pressure on him when I had a chance. It's my own fault, I have got nobody to blame but myself.

Too many employees want to blame someone else for mistakes. The customer doesn't care who made the mistake; he wants the employee standing in front of him to take care of it. You must own the problem. Apologize on behalf of your organization, and then take whatever steps are necessary to solve the problem.

We turned the ball over 25 times, which robbed us of any chance to win the game. We turned it over 24 times up there (a 77-61 loss Dec. 10 in Rensselaer, Ind.). I take the blame for that. That's what we talked about in practice, but I guess I didn't do a very good job of getting their attention.

What's going to happen is that county council and the county executive will be able to blame the judge. I think that's what's going to happen -- they want to blame the judge for reassessment. That's not leadership, that's hiding,

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.

It was the last time Larry coached and it was a bad feeling the next day. Everyone felt we let him down. ... When you see Larry Robinson spilling his guts out to you, saying he can't do it anymore, it's tough. We were embarrassed. The only ones to blame were ourselves.

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.

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 much different second half. What happened early, I guess you can blame that on bad coaching. But we dictated tempo and pressured the ball to get us back in it.

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

It was a tough sun. You couldn't blame anybody for that.

It was ascribed to one's past deeds and one's own mental tendencies. It is wrong to cast the blame on others. But, someone pointed out that God was the originator of both joy and grief and that, without His Will, no blade of grass can waver in the wind; Yes; if that Truth be firmly established in the heart, one gets the unique bliss of liberation.

This upset a lot of our players. And I don't blame them.

We can only blame this one on ourselves. We gave them that game at the end.

We just felt that we were way too up and down. We spread the blame equally. Everybody did something bad.

We just had no life to start with. I'm the coach and I'll take the blame for it.

It's easy to play the blame game, find a scapegoat, but no one person could be responsible for the challenges we face and the lives lost.

It may have affected us a bit. But I don't blame the officials for us losing. We just weren't as focused as usual.

It should not have come down to the last week before enrollment started. There's probably enough blame to go around.

It's a very crushing loss for us because it's between 4-4 and 3-5 in the conference. I blame it on myself for the decisions I made.

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

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 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.

This man apparently screwed up big-time and is trying to blame the chief.

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.

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're going to be looking for a 3.75 percent raise, ... You basically can't blame them.

I feel it necessary to make these points clear because of the references to my firm in the Mayor's article, ... Further references to my firm in a manner which clearly reflect intent to throw blame in my direction will not be tolerated .... Placing into issue this firm's competence may well serve to waive the City's privilege with respect to documents in our possession which are necessary to demonstrate the falsity of those assertions.

I began to blame the philosophers for rattling away when experience was lacking, and holding their tongues when they ought to have been answering with facts. In this respect they all seemed like watered-down theologians.

I believe 100 percent in Robbie Loomis and in his abilities. When we're on, there's nobody better, and because of our lack of performance this year I really don't think that, you know, Robbie should be put to blame for that.

I can't blame him even though I'd be disappointed. It's the best thing for him.

I can't blame people, at this rate, for not wanting to volunteer,

I can't blame them for anything they feel. They lost a wonderful man. I have a family that lost their son for a year, but he's coming home, so if they want to blame the police I can't fault them.

I can't blame whoever is putting the signs down. I am the one throwing the bad pitches; it is not his fault.

I cannot blame certain senators if they are so determined to use all of their time and energy to block this genuine outpouring of support from the people because they will already become irrelevant once the People's Initiative succeeds in paving the way for a parliamentary system of government.

I cannot blame the team for what they did. They figured that this is what they need to do in order to I guess to, I don't know, not to say to help him out but just to clean up some of the issues that have been happening to this organization.

I completely blame myself for that. It's unacceptable.

I could hear Larry out there, and he was saying, 'Oh, God!' and he didn't want to call it. You really couldn't blame him.

I couldn't assign any blame to passengers, ... except there are not enough of them, and they don't pay enough.

I don't now what situation they came from and I don't know what they were offered to go somewhere else. It's the times now, There's not a any loyalty for anyone or anything -- a whole lot. Wherever the money's at, that's where they're going, so I don't blame them. They've got just a few years to get it done and if they don't get it done then, then they aren't going to get it done.

I don't like to blame the refs. But they didn't have one of their best games.

I can blame only one person. The government. This Carla Martin. What did we teach her in school? She knows the rules. She didn't play by them.

I can't allow us to be blaming other factors for the way that we play. There's a very simple thing to do under those situations, and that's play better. We've done that a little bit too much this year: blame the refs, blame other situations, and that's not a belief system that I can endorse n ever.

If I'm a fan, I'm not going to miss that game. I'm not going to miss the chance to watch one of the great players of all time come out and compete live. I don't know if it will be his last game, but if it is, and you have a ticket and didn't go, you have no one to blame but yourself. You'll lie about it and say, 'Oh, I went. I saw Brett.' But you'll be a lying dog.

I don't want to blame it on my hips, but it's just kind of been hard at times playing with bad hips. Toward the end of the season, there were days I didn't even practice I was in so much pain. But there's really no excuse. I think when it came game time, I just made the best of it.

I don't want to blame the officials. For me the most important thing is to score goals with the number of opportunities we are creating.

I don't want to blame this on Rochford. The fact is it's not all his fault. But the snaps have to be better. And we also have to hold it and put it down and make the kick.

If he feels that way, I can't really blame him. I have been injured a lot this season. When I came here, much was expected of me, just as much was promised to me. I'd say there's disappointment on both sides.

If I'd done this last week there wouldn't be a controversy. If I was such a lock to be on the Ryder Cup team, I should have made it by myself. I've got no one to blame but myself.

If Ferrari needed him and found him available, the answer is yes. He's very strong, he never complains, he doesn't blame others if he loses.

I definitely don't think it's effort, it's bearing down and executing the game plan. You can blame it on age. But we're all in the NHL and we're here for a reason, so we know how to play the game. It's concentrating for the full 60 minutes. We aren't doing that.

I can only say that I need to elevate my game; I'm not happy with it. I'm one of the guys to blame for what's been happening here.

I don't think fatigue was a factor in all honesty. I was really proud of our players tonight. I think we played a very solid second half. We went with our two smaller forwards playing for a period of time there. We were down nine and we did a lot of really positive things. In all honesty, if fatigue ever is a factor I'm never using it as an excuse. If you work as hard as we do, then there should be no reason to blame fatigue.

I don't take any particular shot at Georgia, but the poor-mouthing is getting old every year. I don't blame Ray for doing it because he learned under the best in Vince Dooley. And the thing is, it usually worked.

I don't think there's anyone to blame here other than the circumstances. Leavander has a heart of a champion, and that's why he's in the hospital. He's a victim of his own courage.

I don't think we can blame the track. It's bumpy for everybody and not everybody is having the same problem.

Governor Sanford would rather blame the Department of Labor for passing out bad numbers than work to create jobs in South Carolina.

He raised some issues that were embarrassing and unpleasant in that people didn't really want to deal with them. It seems like it became more convenient to ignore what he had to say and blame the messenger.

Her dance was affected a little bit. But she practiced all week, so we can't blame it on the injury.

A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.

If Gov. Bush is willing to shoulder the blame when things go wrong, he must also take it upon himself to remedy this disastrous situation. Hurricane victims should not have to wait for help because the government can't get its act together.

If he (Jones) brings a team that's got six, seven, eight injuries, and brings sort of his B side across you can't really blame him for not getting a result so I can't see that being any influence on his future.

If he chooses to come back, I have no problem with that at all. You can't blame the manager. It was us. There were a lot of game we should have won this year.

The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.

Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.

Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me.

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

Blame the guy who doesn't speak Engish.

I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.

I've never been good at the money thing. I have had a couple of really nice but inept managers, and a business accountant that ripped me off. But I cannot totally blame my money making lameness on them.

Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame.

Always blame conditions, not men

Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.

I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.

A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.

By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.

The average human's fundamental project is to find someone else to blame for their problems.

With hindsight, it is always easy to blame everyone else.