Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Woodrow Wilson

Too much law was too much government; and too much government was too little individual privilege,- as too much individual privilege in its turn was selfish license

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.

Kurt Vonnegut

The government satirizes itself. All we can wish is that there will be a large number of Americans who will realize how dumb this all is, and how greedy and how vicious. Such an audience is dwindling all the time because of TV.

Vandana Shiva

To create the protection for the corporations, government is actually growing bigger than ever before, in every part of the world. Yet it’s growing extremely thin as a protector of people.

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.