Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Blair Henry

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

Peter Blair Henry

A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.

Phil Gramm

I did not come to Washington to be loved, and I have not been disappointed.

Phil Gramm

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

Peter Schiff

Perhaps the most important reason to be skeptical of government inflation numbers is that the government, like a fox campaigning to guard a hen house, has many reasons to be disingenuous. As the world's largest debtor, the Federal Government is inflation's primary beneficiary.

Peter Schiff

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

Peter Schiff

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.

Peter Senge

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

Peter Jacobson

Anything government or politics is always exciting for me.

Peter Costello

Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between one House and another, compromise between the States and the Commonwealth and compromise between groups of persons with legitimate interests and other groups with other legitimate interests. There is room for compromise.. indeed demand for it.. in a system of checks and balances.

Pythagoras

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

Pythagoras

The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth.

Josiah Warren

Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.

Josiah Stamp

The Government are extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases!

Joseph Estrada

There is only one government in the Philippines and that is how it will stay,

Joseph Farah

Charity is not a government program.

Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.

Konrad Adenauer

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Kofi Annan

The U.N. power comes from concerted action of the governments.

Kofi Annan

It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people.

Kent Conrad

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

Kent Conrad

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.

Kathleen Sebelius

The essence of good government is trust.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

I was sitting alone in a grim mood - furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. But it inspired me - from now on, all haircuts, etc., that are necessary and important for his campaign - please send the bills to me. ... It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.

Rafik Hariri

The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.

Rafik Hariri

I have... submitted the resignation of the government, and I have declared that I will not be a candidate to head the (next) government.

Rahm Emanuel

I hope President [Hamid] Karzai understands that our national security interests don't depend entirely on his decision there whether to allow a recount. Obviously the legitimacy of that government is an important component of it. My point is it shouldn't be the lynch pin for us deciding whether we're going to protect our national security interests in that region.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morality is the object of government.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The less government we have the better.

Scott Rigell

Have the government get out of the way.

Scott Ritter

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.