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I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.

Kenneth Lay

Businessman · American · 1942 – 2006

People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.

Carl Paladino

Politician · American · b. 1946

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

Lillian Hellman

Dramatist · American · 1907 – 1984

I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.

Kevyn Aucoin

Artist · American · 1962 – 2002

We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.

Peter Camejo

Businessman · American · b. 1939

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

Alexander Woollcott

Critic · American · 1887 – 1942

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

John F. Kennedy

President · American · 1917 – 1963

We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans.

Louise Slaughter

Politician · American · b. 1929

Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says.

John Harvey Kellogg

Businessman · American · 1852 – 1943

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

Al Sharpton

Politician · American · b. 1954

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Mahmoud Abbas

Statesman · Palestinian · b. 1935

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

Paul Wellstone

Politician · American · 1944 – 2002

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

W. H. Auden

Poet · English · 1907 – 1973

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Jerome K. Jerome

Author · English · 1859 – 1927

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

Walter Gilbert

Scientist · American · b. 1932

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

Steven Spielberg

Director · American · b. 1947

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

Howard Nemerov

Poet · American · 1920 – 1991

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

David R. Brower

Environmentalist · American · 1912 – 2000

What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility.

Arthur Levitt

Public Servant · American · b. 1931

So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.

Alphonso Jackson

Public Servant · American · b. 1945

It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

Edward Tufte

Educator · American · b. 1942

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

Chris Patten

Politician · British · b. 1944

But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.

David Blunkett

Politician · British · b. 1947

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

Robert H. Schuller

Clergyman · American · b. 1926

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

Bill Bradley

Politician · American · b. 1943

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

John C. Maxwell

Clergyman · American

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Novelist · French · 1900 – 1944

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

John Ashcroft

Public Servant · American · b. 1942

Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.

John F. Kerry

Politician · American · b. 1943

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Novelist · French · 1900 – 1944

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

Nancy Pelosi

Politician · American · b. 1940

The American people do not have the information upon which they can hold the administration and responsible agencies accountable. I call that a coverup.

Bob Graham

Politician · American · b. 1936

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Edith Hamilton

Writer · American · 1867 – 1963

If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.

Ralph Merkle

Scientist · American · b. 1952

It came to me then in a flash that obviously the temperature of the water was responsible for the nystagmus.

Robert Barany

Scientist · Austrian · 1876 – 1936

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

Lewis Thomas

Scientist · English · 1913 – 1993

Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future... They have got to step up.

Jeff Sessions

Politician · American · b. 1946

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

G. M. Trevelyan

Historian · English · 1876 – 1962

Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal.

Francis Ford Coppola

Director · American · b. 1939

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

Paul Weyrich

Critic · American · b. 1942

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

Dennis Potter

Dramatist · British · 1935 – 1994

And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.

Warren Farrell

Writer · American · b. 1943

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

Paul Wellstone

Politician · American · 1944 – 2002

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

Paul Ryan

Politician · American · b. 1970

Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.

Bill Shuster

Politician · American · b. 1961

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

Charles Evers

Activist · American · b. 1922

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

Byron Dorgan

Politician · American · b. 1942

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady · American · 1884 – 1962

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