“…if what I say is responsible, I alone am responsible for the saying of it…”
RTNDA Convention Speech (1958)
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“Nothing happens to advance our potential until we step and say “I am responsible.””
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn

“I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.”

Guardian Weekly [London] (8 April 1984)
Context: I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute — a white skin.
Source: Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say”

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say”

Part 4, Chapter 1, III
Being and Nothingness (1943)
Context: I am responsible for everything … except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world … in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

“The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities."”
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah