the buck stops here informal
the buck stops with somebody
the buck lies with somebody

Once it was a President who said "the buck stops here."

Yet, you told the committees the buck stops here with me.

On this whole issue, he said, "the buck stops here with me."

As we say in our language, the buck stops here."

There's no, oh the buck stops here and I can't pass it any further!

The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility."

Do they understand that "the buck stops here" is the core of the modern Presidency?

Mr. Major told his party that "the buck stops here."

Neither Congress nor the President wants to say the buck stops here.

She remembers which president said, "The buck stops here."

This is a new way of expressing an old adage: the buck stops here.

I have gone at this thing every way I can, and now the buck stops here."

But for now, to adopt Truman's words (1945), the buck stops here.

I think they wanted someone at the end of the day to be able to stand up and say, 'The buck stops here.' "

"I unilaterally made the decision: the buck stops here!"

I guess it's the Harry Truman theory of the buck stops here.

- who had a sign on his desk saying 'The buck stops here'.

Harry S. Truman used to say "the buck stops here."

"He's supposed to be 'the buck stops here' kind of guy.

Whatever happened to "the buck stops here"?

There is no Harry Truman, the buck stops here, for us."

"There's no free lunch; you have to pay the piper," he says, quitting just short of "the buck stops here."

For he's not only saying "the buck stops here," but that it "starts" in the Oval Office.

"The buck stops here with me," he declared.

In lexicographical endeavors, I have described the buck stops here as a poker-playing phrase.

We all are responsible and the buck stops with me.

But what exactly does it mean to say "The buck stops with me"?

It was my error and the buck stops with me."

"The buck stops with me, and I intend to fix this situation."

He said: 'I want to make it clear that the buck stops with me.

In simple terms, the buck stops with me.

"The buck stops with me, and me alone," he said yesterday.

The teething problems are bound to continue and, as the chair of governors, the buck stops with me.

You can talk to me about anything, but you also need to know that I'm the parent, so the buck stops with me.

As a manager, the buck stops with me."

"I guess the buck stops with me," Rohart said with very little pleasure.

Walsh commented that it "was not our finest hour ... the buck stops with me".

"The buck stops with me," Attorney General Janet Reno said after the Waco disaster.

Poll later denied any blame should be placed upon the other officials saying, "I was the referee, it was my error and the buck stops with me".

"The buck stops with me with everything at Tyco," he said in State Supreme Court in Manhattan.

"The buck stops with me," the governor said in a televised news conference at the Capitol in Sacramento, two days after the special election in which his proposals were defeated.

"I am the chief executive and whatever good or bad happens in this county, the buck stops with me," Mr. Gulotta said of the report's findings in a telephone interview today.

And for Adm. John ("The Buck Stops With Me") Poindexter, a yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum.

Ms. Reno became a folk heroine after the Waco disaster when, as President Clinton hid under his desk, she went before the cameras to say "The buck stops with me."

And I'm assuming that none of you or your lawyers are worried about the substance of the agreement-" "Yes, we've had lawyers look at things, but the buck stops with me," Henry said.

Acknowledging that he was not considered a "baseball man," Harazin said he would "be a fool" not to rely significantly on Cashen over the coming season, but stated sternly that "the buck stops with me."

She had listened to the problems and hopes of students before, but, she said, "I never felt it as acutely as I do now, because now the buck stops with me and there is no one else I can turn to."