“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
“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
“I'd turn off the internet for a month and make us actually talk to each other, and be responsible for your opinions and not be able to hide behind the anonymity of the cyber-wall to speak your mind. To actually have to face people and see their reactions and discuss it - actually discuss it. It won't happen. Unless the grid goes down.” PeopleMindHappensAbleFacesTurnsSpeakBehindsOpinionWallMonthsInternetResponsibleReactionsBeing ResponsibleAnonymityTurn OffCyberGridsSpeak Your Mind Author:John Larroquette
“Anyone who grew up in the crack era - you know, I grew up in that era - knew that there were also people out - and there are still guys to this day that are out there, you know, obviously drug dealing - but those were the guys who had access and had money. And some of those guys felt responsible to create opportunity for other people and were also aware of the dangers of their work and often aren't really the ones that are encouraging kids to get into drug dealing.” PeopleKnowsStillsKidsGuyOpportunityFeltDangerGrewDrugGrew UpResponsibleAccessErasThis DayCracks Author:Mahershala Ali
“Am I a capitalist? No. Why would I be a capitalist? I have no capital. Most people have no capital. But to punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.” PeopleUniverseIndividualSinResponsibleCapitalist Author:Gloria Steinem
“A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible.” PeopleChurchReligiousDealsTraditionResponsibleScandalReligious TraditionsWhittling Author:C. S. Lewis
“One of the reasons why I've written The Challenge for Africa is to save it. Surely there are so many problems we can solve in Africa, but first and foremost, we need a government that feels responsible to protect their own people from the exploitations, from the misuse, from the mistreatment that they can easily get.” PeopleNeedsFeelsFirstsReasonProblemGovernmentChallengesWrittenProtectResponsibleSolveReason WhyExploitationMisuseMistreatment Author:Wangari Maathai
“Diversity means, when the left teaches it, the people responsible for building America and maintaining it get the short end of the stick from now on. With this singular American culture that people came and wanted to be part of, they were proud, couldn't wait to become Americans, tears in their eyes when it happened. It was a special place. Defending it now, defending that America, defending our cultural, defending our founding, defending all of the things that made this country great is now called racism or xenophobia or hate.” PeopleMeanMadeEndsCountryEyeWantedAmericaHateCultureLeftWaitingTeachHappenedSpecialTearsBuildingProudDiversityRacismResponsibleSticksFoundingMaintainingAmerican CultureXenophobiaSpecial Places Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The culture of death is imposed by economic and political interests, the arrogance of power, corruption. I blame the first world for having taken our riches for so many years. I am speaking of the superpowers that dominate the life of the world. More concretely, the World Bank, the IMF. Those that have caused and tolerated the death of our people, those responsible for the plundering of the third world. Silence is also part of repression.” PeopleWorldYearsFirstsPoliticalCultureInterestSilenceTakenEconomicThirdsResponsibleBlameCorruptionRichesArroganceSilence IsRepressionThird WorldSuperpowerPower CorruptsImfWorld BankPower Corruption Author:Rigoberta Menchu
“I do not believe God is responsible for my sins, some people may. But I believe that my own weaknesses are father-filtered and just as much as God touched Jacob's hip and he walked with a limb the rest of his life, that I have certain emotional weaknesses that are there to keep me dependent on God.” PeopleBelieveMayCertainFatherI BelieveMy OwnSinEmotionalWeaknessResponsibleHipsDependentTouchedBelieve In GodLimbsJacob Author:Rick Warren
“It's the same argument people say about the blogs. The blogs are responsible. No, they're not. The blogs are like anything else. You judge each one based on its own veracity and intelligence and all of that.” PeopleJudgingArgumentResponsibleBlogsVeracity Author:Jon Stewart
“Reagan saw the Soviet Union as evil, all right, and not only because it was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people but also because it was atheistic. [Vladimir] Lenin said that religious faith and communism were incompatible.” PeopleSaidEvilReligiousMillionsSawsResponsibleUnionsCommunismSovietSoviet UnionReligious FaithAtheistic Author:Paul Kengor
“Those who are talking sharia in Nigeria are really just politicians exploiting what they think is available. But if it should turn out that there are in fact whole sections of the country which believe that it is legitimate to chop off peoples hands because they stole a hen - if that should really turn out to be the genuine belief of responsible, educated people in the North than I would say there is no chance. But I do not believe that is the case. The sharia was always there but it was never force onto non-Muslims and it was not ever applied in the area of criminal law.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldBelieveCountryWholeFactsHandsLawTurnsBeliefForceChanceTalkingCasesPoliticianAreasResponsibleAvailableCriminalsGenuineEducatedSectionsNigeriaHensCriminal LawSharia Author:Chinua Achebe
“I think I got from my father and my mother a sense of morality, of the do's and don't's in society; the notion that good people don't do this; good people are responsible, good people participate in community, and good people vote, good people own land. These were things I heard from my father's pulpit.” PeopleThinkingMotherFatherCommunityHeardLandMoralityVoteResponsibleNotionGood PeoplePulpit Author:David C. Driskell
“There is this really intimate connection that people have with the animals they're going to eat. A lot of people who eat meat say "I would never kill my own animals." Well, that means someone else is doing it for you, ultimately. This is the modern attitude that we have: Somebody else will do that for me. And to me, it just seemed wrong. I wanted to be part of the process of what it meant to eat meat. I wanted to be responsible.” PeopleMeanAnimalAttitudeModernResponsibleIntimateBeing Responsible Author:Novella Carpenter
“Until you can become accountable to yourself and only yourself, you're probably not going to live a fully vital life. So much of literature is about accountability. The moral issues in most novels are about people becoming responsible for their own behaviour. One of the forces against being responsible for your own behaviour is the force of the past, in the way that the past tries to form you.” PeopleTryingPastLiteratureMoralNovelResponsibleAccountabilityBeing Responsible Author:Richard Ford
“Playing Sally McKenna was a wonderful, freeing thing because we all in life have so many responsibilities to ourselves, to other people, that we rarely get to explore a very selfish side of ourselves in doing what we want, when we want, how we want, without answering to or being responsible for anyone else.” PeopleResponsibilityWonderfulResponsibleSelfishBeing Responsible Author:Sarah Paulson
“A lot of young people are very cynical about the political framework because they see the countries that preach democracy and human rights being countries largely responsible for the problems in their region.” PeopleCountryProblemPoliticalDemocracyResponsibleHuman RightsCynical Author:Mary Robinson
“When you leave people behind, and those people who are left behind, it's not their fault, it's the leaders of the institutions. There's always going to be an elite. You can have an elite in a communist society. It is the leaders, something went wrong, and the leaders collectively are responsible.” PeopleLeaderResponsibleCommunistLeft Behind Author:Jamie Dimon
“You have people like Sarah Jessica Parker - and it's also because of her mother and where she came from and all that stuff - but how you're taught to be responsible for yourself rather than endlessly people waiting for you and bringing you things.” PeopleMotherWaitingResponsibleBeing Responsible Author:Cynthia Nixon
“Innovation is a subset of creativity. Innovation often deals with product launches and is often relegated to the C-suite or to heads of R&D departments. Innovation requires creativity, but creativity is something that is much more broad. It applies to people at all levels of an organization. Today, we all are responsible for delivering "everyday creativity". Small creative acts that add up to big things.” PeopleTodayCreativityCreativeInnovationResponsibleEveryday Author:Josh Linkner
“If a woman isn't feeling sexual with herself, she won't respond to advances from any partner, male or female. When this woman goes dancing, she's finding a connection with her own erotic self. It might be about being on a dance floor, feeling free, not having to feel at all responsible for anybody else's well-being. For other people, it might be about going on a hike for four days by herself and reconnecting with nature and strength and endurance and beauty.” PeopleFeelingsFemaleResponsibleDancingEnduranceDance Floor Author:Esther Perel
“Very few people know that my department is responsible for 1.2 million home loans since I have been secretary. That's 1.2 million families that are living in homes in rural America that would never have homeownership, but for the United States Department of Agriculture's programs. We have to do more of educating people about the partnership that does exist between rural America and their government.” PeopleHomeProgramResponsiblePartnershipSecretaryLoan Author:Tom Vilsack
“There is not a scintilla of evidence that the Russians even are responsible for the leak of all of those John Podesta emails to WikiLeaks. You may think that you've heard all these intelligence people running around saying that they have concluded that the Russians were trying to hack this and trying to hack that. That use of the word "conclusion," by the way, is kind of like the use of the word "claimed" by the Drive-By Media.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindRunningEvidenceResponsibleConclusion Author:Rush Limbaugh
“A lot of people do want to be victims. It's easy. It's an excuse for not doing anything and an excuse for failing. Being a victim means somebody else is responsible for everything going wrong in your life. So Democrats love plugging as many people as they can into victim status.” PeopleMeanEasyFailingResponsibleVictimDemocratExcuse Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.” PeopleKindWarCountryPoliticianConcernResponsible Author:Bill Moyers
“The anger of the people in the Gaza Strip is mainly directed toward those who are responsible for the dire living conditions, for the occupation and the blockade. But, yes, for sure, as is the case everywhere, there are some who oppose the government. But they are very few compared to the close to 2 million inhabitants of Gaza suffering under Israel, the occupying power.” PeopleSufferingResponsibleGaza Author:Khaled Mashal
“We aren't the Holy Spirit. I don't think we are responsible for the salvation of six billion people. But I do think that we are responsible to not just keep the love that God has shown us inside. If we are faithful with that, if we truly love other people, they will see it. That love is infectious. It drew us all to find out who Christ was and the truth about His gospel. It still works that way, no matter how flashy you package it.” PeopleThinkingSpiritChristLove IsHolyResponsibleSalvationFaithfulHoly Spirit Author:Reese Roper
“One of the most important things in any leader or in any successful approach is to focus on connecting with people and really listening to them. We shouldn't just be saying, oh yes, the people are protesting. We need to ask them why they are protesting and try and figure out if there is something we can do to bring them in and respond to those concerns. That's not populism - that's being thoughtfully open to the fact that our citizens are allowed to have, and are even justified in having, very real concerns and questions for the people responsible for serving them.” PeopleTryingImportantRealLeaderSuccessfulFocusListeningConcernResponsibleJustified Author:Justin Trudeau
“Where do poor young people turn? ISIS has a mission for you to change the world! It's a horrific vision, but it's a vision. Perhaps for white supremacists, you can add the additional storyline that they believe that they are having something taken from them by outsiders, by immigrants. Not only are they losing out and bored, but they think they are victims and that they know who is responsible.” PeopleThinkingWorldBelievePoorVisionTakenLosingResponsibleVictimBoredChanging The WorldOutsidersHorrific Author:Garry Kasparov
“The United States, in people's perverted minds, is responsible for all the destitution and all the poverty and all the victimization around the world and it is our responsibility to let all of these people in precisely because it's our fault they exist as they do.” PeopleWorldMindResponsibilityPovertyResponsible Author:Rush Limbaugh
“People start realising that I'm a responsible filmmaker and I'm not going to run away with the budget or do anything stupid. I think it probably depends on the subject matter and it depends on who's producing and all those things. My hope is that I'll be allowed to carry on making films.” PeopleThinkingRunningFilmStupidResponsibleFilmmakerRealisingRunning Away Author:David Mackenzie
“I always had a very strong sense of responsibility, so the minute I started to work in fashion, I was always tremendously serious-too much sometimes. Of course, you can make a lot of mistakes in this job-I still do-but you need to limit them as much as possible. When you're responsible for such a huge company, you cannot play too much. In the beginning, I was working 20 hours per day and I was going crazy. I learned that I needed to delegate and to trust the people around me, but there is still not one element that I don't see or edit or discuss with my people.” PeopleSometimesStrongHoursMistakeResponsibilityCrazyFashionResponsibleVery StrongSense Of ResponsibilityGoing Crazy Author:Frida Giannini
“Many of us who grew up playing golf know that our kids aren't doing it. A great way to enhance the game, make it cool again and bring back some of the interest among younger people is to make golf the greenest sport in an environmental sense. Every course's greenkeeper should think of himself or herself as the greenkeeper: responsible for preserving the green, not just the greens.” PeopleThinkingKidsSportsInterestResponsibleGolfEnvironmental Author:Thomas Friedman
“Scientology's a slow process in the beginning. It teaches basic principles of life - do unto others as you'd have done to you and be responsible. Then there are little courses that cost a little bit of money and you start to learn the concepts of Scientology, kind of like, "Scientology's a new religion and so it's being attacked, here's all the good works that we're doing." And you're like, "Why do people attack Scientology?" It slowly starts to get in your mind and your subconscious that it's Scientology against the world, and any enemy of Scientology is an enemy to mankind.” PeopleWorldMindKindDoneEnemyTeachMankindResponsibleGood WorkSubconsciousBeing Responsible Author:Leah Remini
“Poverty is not an accident of, sort of, an economic spreadsheet. Poverty is a crime. There are criminals involved. And those criminals walk the streets as free men. What my music is about, and what - this from the riots in the streets of Greece and Spain to the people's uprisings in Egypt and Libya and Madison is about is holding those people accountable, those who are responsible for subverting the entire global economy and causing so much misery and then laughing about it with their, you know, clinking their champagne glasses on their yachts.” PeopleMenPovertyLaughingEconomyEconomicCrimeMusic IsResponsibleMiseryGreeceRiotGlobal EconomyYacht Author:Tom Morello
“Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.” PeopleMaterialsDependsResponsibleStressedBeing ResponsibleMaterial ThingsNonsensicalStressed Out Author:Eartha Kitt
“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.” PeopleCountryAsksAnswersAcceptingDirectResponsibleOur CountryTelling The Truth Author:Eartha Kitt
“The anonymity issue is a big question. As long as people can disguise cyber attacks and as long as there is a sort of question mark over who is responsible, then the problem will continue to exist. And of course what happens in response to that is that there is a move to try and refashion the Internet so that anonymity is impossible, which of course leads to fears among all sorts of groups - civil rights groups, NGOs, and political parties - that the Internet is going to be used simply as a method of control. So these are very sensitive issues.” PeopleTryingLongProblemMovingPoliticalPartyImpossibleInternetResponsibleResponseCivil RightsSensitiveDisguisePolitical PartiesAnonymityQuestion Mark Author:Misha Glenny
“What Barack Obama calls bipartisanship is not moving to the right, but finding where people who consider themselves conservatives share these fundamental American values. When he talks about union, that's the kind of thing he means. That requires common responsibility. Individual responsibility is one of the hallmarks of conservative thought. In conservative religion, you yourself are responsible for whether you get into heaven. Or with fiscal conservatives, you are the market. It's your individual discipline and market discipline.” PeopleKindMeanMovingValuesIndividualHeavenCommonResponsibilityShareDisciplineResponsibleConservativeBarackHallmarkAmerican ValuesBipartisanship Author:George Lakoff
“I had people who were around me, people that I put a lot of trust in that sort of messed me over. So after that I said, only I can look back over my life and say I was responsible for whom I hired. I was responsible for how I managed my money. So I decided I wanted to do it myself. I understood the business of football. And because I can understand the business of football, I decided it's the best decision for me to be an agent. It made the most sense and I think a lot of players are opening their eyes to it as well.” PeopleThinkingEyeDecisionPlayerFootballResponsible Author:Russell Okung
“Elites are inevitable in politics. That is how politics is going to work. The question is, are your elites responsible, public-spirited? Do they think about the interests of others, not just themselves? And the story of Western politics since the beginning of the century is that as elites become more separated, more selfish, as they leave behind their populations and don't think about them, they become discredited. And the people look for alternatives. But the alternative is worse. Those rules of the game protect us all. And they are more precious than almost any political outcome.” PeopleThinkingPoliticalInterestProtectResponsibleWesternSelfishInevitableGoing To Work Author:David Frum
“None of the people who wrote Obamacare want anything to do with it. None of the people responsible for Obamacare can afford it. They all want subsidies. None of the people that gave us Obamacare have any desire to actually go to HealthCare.gov and sign up. That's for you and me to have to do.” PeopleWantDesireResponsibleHealthcareObamacareSubsidies Author:Rush Limbaugh
“An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.” PeopleBelieveIdeasScienceBeliefResponsibilityResponsible Author:Don Marquis
“There are three legs of the stool; spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That's the three legs of the stool. If we do all of those in a responsible, bipartisan way, I think the American people would all be very, very happy.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayThreeTaxesFairsResponsibleLegsSpendingCodeVery HappyEntitlementBipartisanStoolsEquitableThree Legs Author:Claire McCaskill
“Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!” PeoplePositionAuthorityEncouragementResponsibleAppreciationCriticalOver YouComplaintsEnvious Author:Joyce Meyer
“A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'” PeopleJoyResponsible Author:Joyce Meyer
“I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.” PeoplePlayFactsSituationStandingResponsibleBreathingTense Author:Lorrie Moore
“When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees.” PeopleYearsFeltCompanySituationCallingYears AgoResponsibleDebtEmployeeCeoBankersSinkingBankruptcyXerox Author:Anne M. Mulcahy