Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

A long memory is the most subversive idea in America. A tautology is a thing which is tautological. A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. If your kids look like you, it's hereditory. If they look like the neighbor, it's the environment. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Amartya Sen

You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop them?

Andrew Weil

Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

Andrei Sakharov

Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.

Chuck Hagel

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

Chuck D.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

Andrew Card

There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.