“My fifth mother is Mother Nature - the things I had to learn on my own, the understanding I had to come to and still have to come to as a young woman, as a responsible mother, a responsible granddaughter and child. She teaches me willpower, honesty, and the things we need to heal ourselves from moment to moment.” NeedsChildrenStillsMomentsYoungMotherUnderstandingMy OwnTeachHonestyResponsibleHealYoung WomenWillpowerFifthMother NatureGranddaughter Author:Erykah Badu
“Because you're responsible for [children]. You are there to protect them, not possess them. I tell them, "Watch me and you might learn something."” ChildrenMightWatchesProtectResponsibleWatch Me Author:Erykah Badu
“You look at energy use in the U.S. and one-third of it is automotive or our transportation system, one-third of it is manufacturing and one-third of it is buildings. That means architects are responsible for one-third of energy by their designs. So not only is it dire, it's also something that we can do.” LooksMeanUseEnergyCan DoDesignBuildingThirdsResponsibleArchitectManufacturingTransportationEnergy Use Author:Carol Ross Barney
“The Clinton camp has been able to project that kind of neo-McCarthy hysteria: that Russia is responsible for everything.” KindHas BeensAbleProjectsResponsibleClintonRussiaCampsHysteria Author:Julian Assange
“I believe a great company, whether improving a sector or creating a new one, needs to have an excellent product or service at its core; needs strong management to execute the plan and a good brand to give it the edge over its competitors. Providing quality service, combined with value for money and in an innovative way ensures you offer real value - and finally to be responsible to society and the planet.” WayNeedsGivingBelieveRealValuesStrongI BelieveQualityCompanyPlansPlanetsProductsOffersCreatingResponsibleManagementEdgesCoreBrandsExcellentOver ItProvidingImprovingCompetitorsInnovativeBeing ResponsibleStrong ManReal ValueGreat CompanyQuality Service Author:Richard Branson
“The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.” PeopleGovernmentAmericaBlackHappeningsResponsibleBlack People Author:Malcolm X
“The government is responsible for the violence, as long as they don't stop it. And if we have to get violent to protect ourselves, then it's the government that should be charged with the crime, because we're only upholding a law that they've been unable to uphold.” IfsShouldLongGovernmentLawViolenceCrimeProtectResponsibleViolent Author:Malcolm X
“In fact it was always the Communist problem which was responsible for the opposition to [Albert] Camus. It was always and overall a political thing, a kind of misunderstanding.” KindFactsProblemPoliticalResponsibleOppositionCommunistMisunderstanding Author:Catherine Camus
“The current budget that the Republicans are looking at never balances. How can that be fiscally responsible? And how can we look at the public with a straight face and say yes we ran on balanced budgets.” LooksFacesBalanceRepublicanResponsibleCurrentsBudgetsRanBalancedBalanced BudgetStraight Face Author:Rand Paul
“I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House. And I think, like, there's a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.” ThinkingKnowsWayFirstsGovernmentHouseLanguagePresidentDifferencesWhiteConditionsResponsibleBarackNeighborhoodWhite HouseCrucialAdoptedPresident Barack Obama Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“The communists were mainly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish anarchists. Not just in Catalonia - the communist armies mainly destroyed the collectives elsewhere.” DestructionArmyResponsibleDestroyedCollectivesCommunistElsewhereAnarchistCatalonia Author:Noam Chomsky
“With respect to some of the specific legislation or initiatives that I've made, it's true that Republicans often opposed these things. Sometimes they opposed them because I proposed them. Now that they are responsible for governing, I think they'll find that reversing them would be counterproductive.” ThinkingMadeSometimesWould BeRepublicanResponsibleMade ItInitiativeLegislationGoverningCounterproductive Author:Barack Obama
“Politically, the world economy really depends on consultants. Because it's also, in a way, an outsourcing of responsibility. They can say, "Yeah, they told us to do that," and the consultant says, "Yeah, but I'm just a consultant," and nobody's responsible anymore.” WorldWayResponsibilityEconomyDependsResponsibleYeahConsultantsWorld EconomyOutsourcing Author:Maren Ade
“In March [1972] the unity of Pakistan depended on the suppression of the secessionists. But to carry it out with such brutality on the people instead of on those responsible wasn't necessary. That's not the way to convince poor people who've been told that with the Six Points there'll be no more hurricanes, no more floods, no more hunger. I spoke out against such methods more emphatically than anyone else, and when no one dared do so.” PeopleWayPoorSixResponsibleMethodUnityHungerConvinceSpokesMarchFloodPakistanPoor PeopleHurricanesBrutalitySuppression Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
“There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power and corruption they'd even forgotten the honor of the army.” MenEventsHonorArmyResponsibleForgottenCorruptionDrunkOne ManAdviserPower And Corruption Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
“[Invading Iraq] is not the best way to make a safer world in which the United States would be a responsible partner, but it also goes against the role of law in the United States.” WorldWayStatesWould BeLawUnitedRolesUnited StatesResponsibleIraqPartnersBest WayInvadingInvading Iraq Author:John Burroughs
“Once negro community recognize it as such, they can adopt the same measures against the community that harbors the criminals who are responsible for this activity.” CommunityActivityResponsibleCriminalsHarbors Author:Malcolm X
“My mother, when she was younger, worked at Filene's in Boston. And she was chief cashier. And I always wondered why she never went back to some kind of work 'cause that was a very responsible position.” KindMotherCausesPositionResponsibleChiefsBostonCashiers Author:Nat Hentoff
“The Bible unites its interpreters as a shared focus of attention, but it does not demand consensus. On the contrary, it invites and prods us to make responsible choices, to take responsibility for the choices that we have made... It was always like that, and our holy scripture grows over the centuries, gets thicker and thicker, with more texts around, which need/have to be looked into, referred to, considered.” NeedsDoeMadeChoicesGrowsAttentionResponsibilityFocusCenturyHolyDemandResponsibleContraryScriptureMade ItInvitesTaking ResponsibilityConsensusHoly ScripturesInterpreter Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“When you think about the person responsible for creating the character and the dialogue, Bill Monahan, who's a Boston guy, obviously, his words roll off my tongue quite nicely.” ThinkingPersonsCharacterGuyCreatingResponsibleBillsTongueDialogueBoston Author:Mark Wahlberg
“In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.” HardFeelingsAsksAnswersResponsibleResolutionHard Questions Author:Vivek Shraya
“I feel responsible to my people to portray them the way we should be.” PeopleWayFeelsShouldResponsible Author:Justina Machado
“Our concern is to help people counter the efforts of those who seek to "regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers," so that the self-designated "responsible men" will be able to run the affairs of the world untroubled by the "bewildered herd" - the general public - who are to be marginalized and dispersed, directed to personal concerns, in a well-regulated "democracy."” PeopleMenWorldMindWellsSelfHelpingBodyRunningAbleBitsEffortDemocracyConcernArmyResponsibleAffairSoldierHerdsBewilderedMarginalizedGeneral Public Author:Noam Chomsky
“An unstated but crucial premise is that the "responsible men" achieve that exalted status by their service to authentic power, a fact of life that they will discover soon enough if they try to pursue an independent path.” IfsMenTryingEnoughFactsPathAchieveResponsibleIndependentPursueCrucialPremisesFacts Of LifeExaltedSoon Enough Author:Noam Chomsky
“Should people be mere "interested spectators of action," not "participants," restricted to lending their weight periodically to one or another sector of the "responsible men," as advocates of "manufacture of consent" have recommended? Or should their rights transcend these highly restricted bounds?” PeopleMenShouldActionRightsWeightResponsibleMereBoundsConsentSpectatorsParticipantsLending Author:Noam Chomsky
“I am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it?” AdultsOptimismResponsiblePosture Author:David Remnick
“I'm of the opinion that Angela Merkel is a responsible politician, a politician who has a sense of responsibility for Europe and not only for Germany or for the - her political party.” PoliticalPartyResponsibilityOpinionPoliticianEuropeResponsibleGermanyPolitical PartiesSense Of ResponsibilityAngela Author:Alexis Tsipras
“I still don't feel responsible for what Donald Trump says or does. But I do feel a responsibility as president of the United States to make sure that I facilitate a good transition and I present to him as well, as the American people my best thinking, my best ideas about how you move the country forward. To speak out with respect to areas where I think the Republican party's wrong, but to pledge to work with them on those things that I think will advance the causes of security and prosperity and justice and inclusiveness in America.” PeopleThinkingFeelsWellsDoeStillsIdeasCountryStatesAmericaMovingSpeakCausesPresidentJusticeUnitedPartyResponsibilityUnited StatesSecurityTrumpRepublicanAreasResponsibleProsperityTransitionRepublican PartyPledgeSpeaks OutFacilitateInclusiveness Author:Barack Obama
“One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest was Requiem for the Croppies, written 50 years after 1916 [the year of the Easter Rising]. Being responsible and what it means, what it demands, have indeed preoccupied me maybe too much. But this is it, this is the thing, this is what you're up against.” YearsFirstsMeanToo MuchWrittenDemandResponsibleCatholicRisingEasterFistsHammersBeing ResponsibleRequiem Author:Seamus Heaney
“I think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does.” ThinkingWorldPersonsDoeStatesUnitedUnited StatesResponsibleResponsible Person Author:John Lewis
“I still make paintings and use the figure; it's hard to do and hard to succeed. On some levels, because I am working with black figures and black pigment, it's even harder because I have to be more responsible for the image. I try to be really careful about the presence the figure projects.” TryingStillsHardUseBlackLevelsFiguresPaintingSucceedProjectsHarderResponsibleCarefulPigment Author:Kerry James Marshall
“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.” KnowsChildrenAbilityPerfectMistakeResponsibilityResponsibleYour ChildrenMaking MistakesDaddyNot PerfectI'm Not Perfect Author:R. Kelly
“Nobody's going to vote for terrorism. So our governments don't have that sort of political pressure to act in a responsible manner when it comes to stewardship of our rights.” GovernmentPoliticalRightsVotePressureResponsibleTerrorismStewardship Author:Edward Snowden
“I remember when my mother taught me about my menstrual cycle and pregnancy. She, like millions of other mothers before and since, did not have the words or the experience to teach me about the miraculous cycle in my body - the cycle that is responsible for all human life on our planet and connects us to the moon and the tides. Nor did she have the words to teach me about the gift of sensual pleasure that is the birthright of all girls. If she had, my life surely would have been different. For one, I probably would not have suffered from devastating menstrual cramps for decades.” IfsHumansHas BeensDifferentBodyRememberMotherGirlPleasureTeachMillionsTaughtPlanetsMoonResponsibleDecadesSensualHuman LifeCyclesPregnancyTidesRemember WhenMiraculousOur PlanetBirthrightCrampsSensual Pleasure Author:Christiane Northrup
“The government would assert that individuals who are aware of serious wrongdoing in the intelligence community should bring their concerns to the people most responsible for that wrongdoing, and rely on those people to correct the problems that those people themselves authorized.” PeopleShouldProblemGovernmentIndividualCommunitySeriousConcernResponsibleRelyWrongdoingIntelligence Community Author:Edward Snowden
“My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.” GivingTasteResponsibleMy SisterGood TasteTaste In Music Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“I think that Donald Trump is very concerned about finding the right way to be effective in a responsible way. And he wants to be effective.” ThinkingWayWantTrumpFindingsConcernedResponsibleRight Way Author:Newt Gingrich
“The left are responsible for all the turmoil and the "social issues" of politics, because they're the ones constantly trying to corrupt it. And if people stand up and try to explain it, they are said to be the problem.” PeopleIfsTryingSaidProblemLeftSocialIssuesResponsibleSocial IssuesTurmoil Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Anyway, my father became super-responsible. You know, he was the kind of person that absorbs all responsibility in the family, and then everybody else can act like a child in relation to him.” KnowsKindChildrenPersonsFatherResponsibilityRelationResponsible Author:Paul Laffoley
“I'm just a guy that is basically depending on my responsibility skills. I'm really responsible with my children and my wife and my family life. Things have changed with me. I'm not a night person anymore. I've got too many responsibilities to play.” ChildrenPersonsPlayNightGuyResponsibilityWifeChangedSkillsMy FamilyResponsibleMy WifeMy ChildrenFamily LifeThings Have ChangedNight Person Author:Mike Tyson
“[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery.” ExampleResponsibleSlaveryBeing Responsible Author:Raoul Peck
“You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this.” GivingPersonsProblemRealityEyeNamesStreetsExerciseRacismResponsibleCan NotCrowBeing ResponsibleJim Crow Author:Raoul Peck
“All that most parents hope is that their children are happy, funny, well adjusted, and have a passion for something in their lives. What would negate everything is if the next generation that we're responsible for has a passionless existence. And that's cause for occasional sleepless nights.” IfsWellsChildrenNightPassionNextCausesParentExistenceGenerationsResponsibleNext GenerationOccasionalSleepless Nights Author:Tom Hanks
“More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.” IdeasFiguresResponsibleExceptionalismAmerican ExceptionalismTomas Jefferson Author:Gordon S. Wood
“Vladimir Putin is a human rights abuser, responsible for deaths in Ukraine, Georgia and Syria, not to mention curious murders of his political opponents and journalists.” HumansPoliticalRightsMurderResponsibleHuman RightsCuriousJournalistOpponentsSyriaPutinUkraineGeorgiaAbusersPolitical Opponents Author:Jake Tapper
“One [reality] is that I am responsible for my attitude. I can be in prison, and I happen to get a chance to go outside. I can look at the mud, or I can look at the stars. I am the one who decides which way to look. That is true for every one of us.” WayLooksI CanRealityHappensStarsChanceAttitudeResponsiblePrisonMudMy Attitude Author:Gary Chapman
“We all work for media, we all make mistakes all the time. That's inevitable. What the difference between a responsible journalistic institution is, does it care whether it makes mistakes or not? And does it correct them?” DoeCareDifferencesMistakeMediaResponsibleInstitutionsInevitableMaking MistakesWe All Make MistakesJournalistic Author:David Frum
“American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.” IdeasGovernmentWould BeOpportunityActivityResponsibleCommunistSoviet Author:Joseph Stalin
“I believe that Assad must go. I believe he will go. But I believe - we want to make sure that America has the relationships of friendship with the people that take his place, steps that in the years to come we see Syria as a friend, and Syria as a responsible party in the Middle East.” PeopleWantYearsBelieveAmericaI BelievePartyStepsMiddleResponsibleEastMiddle EastSyriaAssad Author:Mitt Romney
“America can be a partner with China. We don't have to be an adversary in any way, shape or form. We can work with them, we can collaborate with them, if they're willing to be responsible.” IfsWayAmericaFormWillingShapesResponsibleChinaPartnersAdversariesBeing Responsible Author:Mitt Romney