Famous Quotes & Sayings

John McCallum

It will be a huge task, with major implications on jobs and users of government programs.

It's a very Social Democrat-oriented government, but that doesn't necessarily mean it can't get reforms done.

Glenn Greenwald

I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States.

Sunil Mittal

Government must make spectrum free. There should be free network, but it is not happening.

Steven Hatfill

I was a guy who trusted the government. Now, I don't trust a damn thing they do.

Tom Colicchio

So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.

Todd Park

We, as citizens, are the true owners of government.

Todd Park

It turns out that in the federal government, there are a lot of innovators.

Tony Tan

I would be able to provide a different perspective and act independently of the Government in the decisions that have to be made by the President.

Tom Daschle

We must govern from the middle, or we will not be able to govern at all.

Dick Armey

The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions.

Dick Armey

[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom, just waiting for us to pick the whole thing up and heave it away. It has to happen. Free people can put up with such laws only for so long.

Dexter Scott King

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

David R. Brower

Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

David Nabarro

There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people.

Chris Christie

China need to be fought back on. And what we need to do is go at the things that they are most sensitive and most embarrassing to them; that they're hiding; get that information and put it out in public. Let the Chinese people start to digest how corrupt the Chinese government is; how they steal from the Chinese people; and how they're enriching oligarchs all throughout China.

Chris Christie

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

Edward Gibbon

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

Ed Balls

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade,

Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. The attempt to playa separate power rolethat is, a role apart from Europe, based on a special relationship with the United States, on being the head of the Commonwealthis about to be played out. Her Majesty's Government is now attempting, wisely in my opinion, to re-enter Europe.

David Walker

It certainly makes sense to expand the pulp industry in Indonesia, .. It's clear that it will be a very competitive exporter of pulp to the rest of the world, including China and India. So the interest by the Indonesian government is clearly to establish a really competitive plantation fiber base to support a globally attractive export industry.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

Beatrice Webb

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

Denis Napthine

I want to make it clear as Premier and as local member that I strongly support the Renewable Energy Target. Our message to the Federal Government and to Canberra is stick to the Renewable Energy Target.

Jon Stewart

Nobody cares that Mitt Romney is rich. It's Romney's inability to understand the institutional advantage that he gains from the government’s tax code largesse, that’s a little offensive to people, especially considering Romney's view on anyone else who looks to the government for things like, I don't know, food and medicine.

Bertrand Russell

Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Charles Edward Merriam

It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

Chester A. Arthur

No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

Charles Handy

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

Charles Horton Cooley

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

Bob Latta

Socialism is when government's taking care of you, you send all your money to the government, the government decides how to spend it instead of letting the people spend it and make all those decisions.