Responsible Quotes

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry Adams

Liberty, Free, Himself

We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going to be implemented Jan. 1, 2012, where they're going to begin to regulate dust. That's right, dust. It's called PM 2.5. That is focusing on the wrong thing.
Herman Cain

Wrong, Gone, Rule

I'm responsible.
Kesha

The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.
Michael Bloomberg

Government, Job, Lost

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
James Taylor

Marriage, Stand, Breaking

Our forefathers got it; they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions.
Luke Scott

Freedom, Put, Action

I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible.
Tony Campolo

Bible, Issues, Democrats

As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.
Tony Campolo

Depression, Face, Might

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.
David Bailey

The moments we have behind us, you won't be able to see again. We're only responsible for what we live in right now.
Flavor Flav

Live, Again, Able

Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.
William Hague

Today, Force, Clear

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.
William Hague

Government, Society, Next

We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there.
J. Michael Straczynski

Brain, Different, Why

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
Arthur Erickson

Work, Often, Artist

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.
Jesse Ventura

Made, Fair, Side

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
Eartha Kitt

Truth, Country, Accept

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.
Jennifer Granholm

Fire, Somebody, Feet

Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
Sam Shepard

Care, May, Democracy

I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
R. Kelly

Mistakes, Children, Perfect

If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.
Arlen Specter

Said, Proud, Wants

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Grover Cleveland

Women, Long, Woman

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.
James Wolcott

Children, Everything, Sense

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman

Moral, Act, Belief

I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.
Hosni Mubarak

Law, Before, Youth

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
Ella Maillart

Learn, Sailing, Easier

I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.
Twyla Tharp

Power, Different, Decisions

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.
Eliot Spitzer

Government, Give, Here

Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.
Nicole Richie

Someone, Else, Child

I always believed that you can make challenging films, but they should be fiscally responsible.
Jason Reitman

Films, Believed, Fiscally

Actors are responsible to the people we play.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

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