Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Baekeland

I also served on many government committees.

Lenny Bruce

The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.

Lee H. Hamilton

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

Lee H. Hamilton

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

L. Ron Hubbard

If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.

L. Ron Hubbard

When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life.

Thom Yorke

Americans are ugly unwashed clods that live off of government cheese. If I could, I'd take every living American, grind them up into a fine paste and use that paste to feed the dolphins, because they are neglected by the evil Americans.

Theresa May

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought

Terry Tempest Williams

Well, we are Americans. I've always believed that you work with where you are - I am a Mormon woman who was raised on the edge of the Great Salt Lake in the American West in the United States of America. But, by the same token, much of my life has been spent resisting traditional forms of democracy, resisting traditional forms of orthodoxy, be it the United States government or the Mormon Church.

Lawrence Summers

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

Lawrence Lessig

In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.

Lawrence Lessig

When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

Lawrence Lessig

My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty... If there is not government to insist on those values, then who? ... The single unifying force should be that we govern ourselves.

Lawrence Lessig

There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.

Lewis H. Lapham

Let the corporations do as they please -- pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets -- and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.

Lewis H. Lapham

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lewis Black

How our government works... it doesn't.

Joseph Story

A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.

Joseph Story

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Joseph Story

So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented; and the national sovereignty, as such, has no representation.

Joseph Story

In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them.

Joseph Stiglitz

The fact that the government had to put up hundreds of billions of dollars to Citibank in guarantees was a public declaration that Citibank was a mess. Making Citibank go through financial restructuring would not have conveyed any more different information. So it's very hard to see why it would have had that kind of a panic if it were done well.

Karen Hughes

For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.

Karen Horney

We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.

Julian Simon

Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By the time of his death, his fundamental way of thought had supplanted the system of John Maynard Keynes - his chief intellectual rival of the century - in the battle since the 1930s for the minds of economists and the policies of governments.

Juan Cole

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

Julius Genachowski

Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.

Joyce Cary

The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

Otto Schily

Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.

Otto von Bismarck

A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Otto von Bismarck

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

Otto von Bismarck

He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States ... and the Government and the nation escaped the plots of the foreign financiers. They understood at once, that the United States would escape their grip. The death of Lincoln was resolved upon.

Junichiro Koizumi

I will set a target for the reduction of (government) employees ... I will implement the reduction of the total personnel costs of the employees.