Famous Quotes & Sayings

The government regrets very much ... which is the perpetrator of the violence, will have to take responsibility.

Andrew Lansley

The government has done too little too late to protect the health of the population -- in June 2004 I told the government to produce a comprehensive strategy,

The government acknowledges his great talent which is why it continually exempts him from his obligation to serve with the National Guard. He has proved worthy of the understanding shown towards him.

Andrew Lansley

You don't come into government thinking it is going to be easy.

Edward Snowden

What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?

Daniel Morgan

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.

We have to find places that we protect away from government so that we can all be the unique and interesting and, in my case, somewhat deviant people we'd like to be.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Will Rogers

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you

Robert Green Ingersoll

Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people.

We have sent it back to Washington and the United States government will look into it very carefully.

This should be a local decision. The governor has always been a strong supporter of home rule.

Mick Cornett

There are a lot of things that government doesn't do well. One of things that government does do well is build stuff.

Marco Rubio

We Americans are as great as we have ever been. But our government is broken.

This suggests the government saw more real growth and less inflation in the quarter.

We keep our government informed. The next step is for the EC to respond.

We thought it was an important issue and so did the governor as well.

We're not ready to lose. The governor has reached out to the other side.

We're not in negotiations with the State of Texas at this time. We have been contacted by the state government a while back. We've been contacted by various state governments over the past several months. We're only considering the state of Mississippi.

we think the governor might be spending money that he doesn't have.

Stephen Harper

Why is the government not suing the Liberal party to recover the money that was lost or stolen?

James Langevin

To me, that's the role of government: not to give people a hand out, but a hand up... giving people the tools to pave their own way to success.

Ronald Reagan

I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Those would be significant openings. It would get government out of those decisions.

We can't only be tied to Quebec's demands, but at the same time we take seriously the recommendations of the Quebec government because it's a major player,

J. D. Salinger

We don't want to get the Russians involved, but unless the U.S. government cooperates, we may have to.

Chelsea Clinton

When I was born, my father was governor of Arkansas.

Kurt Vonnegut

The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher of warm spit. That's because TV will not come and treat it respectfully. Television is really something.

Vandana Shiva

It is often too late by the time the government reacts.

Katherine Anne Porter

we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.

Katherine Anne Porter

Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple faces and attributes correspond to some need and satisfy some deep desire in mankind; still, for the Inquirers, it is impossible not to conclude that this mystical concept has been harnessed rudely to machinery of the most mundane sort, and has been made to serve the ends of an organization which, ruling under divine guidance, has ruled very little better, and in some respects, worse, than certain rather mediocre but frankly manmade systems of government.

Karel Capek

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.