#responsible

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13. ↗

— Larry Elder

#crow #depression #during #father #great

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

#artist #begins #explain #his #likes

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#kick #month #most #pants #person

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#been #emotions #how #i #intellect

Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor. ↗

— Brock Yates

#bond #contractor #had #i #junk

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

— Henry Adams

#absolute #free #himself #ideally #individual

The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#between #called #conflicts #current #denied

I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#american families #burdens #class #deficit #families

We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning the Cold War or in the 1940s during World War II, the responsible thing to do has been to borrow money to win the war. ↗

— Ken Mehlman

#borrow #cold #cold war #during #faced

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#belong #contradictions #each #european #european union