Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're really pleased that the governor has shown, at least in our first negotiating sessions on this, that she seems to mean business.

Muhammad Yunus

Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.

Roy Moore

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

Paul Kurtz

The government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.

Peter MacKay

I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa.

Philip Massinger

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.

David Souter

I would like to think that enough examples of non-compromise are going to start people thinking that there must be a better way to try to govern the country.

Donna Brazile

People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't trust the media.

Noam Chomsky

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

Mike Miller

Without help from our government we'd be out of business.

Subcomandante Marcos

With its military and media campaign, the government has managed only to reduce the already narrow space for intermediate positions,

We have maintained at least 400 police officers at Government House as we know that anti-government rallies will continue.

Louis Farrakhan

When the government wants something, they have to justify what they want by doing something -- whether it injures a hundred, whether it injures a thousand, whether it injures millions,

We welcome Libya's first steps toward reform. But the government has a long road to travel before it meets the international standards of human rights.

O. Henry

We want to work with other parts of the U.S. government, being able to (use) members of their organizations. We want to work formally ... with them and do everything we can to make them successful.

We are electing a permanent government, so more people will be interested.

The president is the head of the constitutional government in Mauritania.

Ed Rendell

Unfortunately, government has become a spectator sport. You can't have a government interested in sitting on the sidelines. This administration has done a marvelous job of lowering people's expectations.

Ehud Barak

The real question is who will lead the government and to where ... and on this question a unity government headed by Netanyahu is not the answer,

Diane Abbott

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

Adam Weishaupt

But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents.

Hillary Clinton

If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.

Frank Rich

My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly.

Barton Gellman

Snowden has yet to tell me anything that was a fact that I have been able to rebut or that anybody in the U.S. government I have talked to has been able to rebut.

Barton Gellman

The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.

P. J. O'Rourke

When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.

P. J. O'Rourke

The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.

We often times go into situations where the government is difficult. This is one of them. I have not seen anything like this.

We paid the price and we'll have to wait and see if the premier will pay the price for putting his political friends in high-profile, high-paying government positions.

Newt Gingrich

We owe the American people the right to know what happened. They have the right to know whether or not the American government was undermined by the Chinese.

David Cameron

Government has the power to help improve well-being

Dave Eggers

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.