Finance Quote by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.

— Thomas Sowell

Apparently the only people who are supposed to be responsible are the taxpayers - and they are increasingly made responsible for other people's irresponsibility.

— Thomas Sowell

The public in many countries is understandably concerned by the commitment of substantial government resources to aid the financial industry when other industries receive…

— Ben Bernanke

“Those responsible for our economic depression have been found irresponsible. The irresponsible are responsible!”

— Jarod Kintz

I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse…

— Jonathan Raymond

Many writers, including myself, have detailed how irresponsible government actions slow economic recoveries. Similar behavior by individuals impedes growth, too. If you can't find…

— Amity Shlaes

We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior…

— Calvin Coolidge

Responsibility finds a way. Irresponsibilty makes excuses!

— Pacifiersucker

“Top-down government breeds irresponsible individuals, and the confiscation of civil society by the state leads to a widespread refusal among the citizens to act…

— Roger Scruton

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

— Anonymous

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment…

— George Washington

“It’s the nature of reactive people to absolve themselves of responsibility. It’s so much safer to say, “I am not responsible.” If I say…

— Stephen R. Covey