Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Allen

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

Stanley Baldwin

Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be no great armaments.

Stanislav Grof

As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.

Silvio Berlusconi

Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler 's Germany rather than opposing it ... The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well.

Shirley Temple

Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life - and if we fail, our government stands ready with Bandaids of every size.

Shirley Hazzard

The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to church; a place made remote - by agreed untruth and procedural complexity, and by tedium itself - from the risk of intense public involvement.

Sergey Brin

We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.

Scott Turow

At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right.

Scott Walker

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

Scott Walker

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

Steven Pinker

A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.

Sue Kelly

I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled.

Sue Halpern

Trusting each other is the beginning of a certain secular faith, a faith that allows us to live in families and communities and nations. Democracy, above all other forms of government, requires this faith ...

Strobe Talbott

In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all.

Strom Thurmond

By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal would inject the Government into the most sensitive areas of human contractual relations-agreements for personal services. In so doing, constitutional interpretations of long standing are being swept aside in favor of tortuous rationalizations which studiously ignore the constitutionally-forbidden imposition of involuntary servitude on citizens

Strom Thurmond

This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.

Richard Stengel

The government's assertion that it must be unhindered in protecting our security can camouflage the desire to increase Executive power, while the press's cry of the public's right to know can mask a quest for competitive advantage or a hidden animus. Neither the need to protect our security nor the public's right to know is a blank check.

Richard Stallman

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

Richard Stallman

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

Richard Norton Smith

When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response.

Just like a house is worth whatever a bank's going to lend against it, an education is worth whatever the bank is going to lend the student to pay the university. So the availability of government-guaranteed student loans has vastly inflated the cost of education, just like it's inflated the cost of housing.

Michael Barone

Punishing enemies and rewarding friends - politics Chicago style - seems to be the unifying principle that helps explain the Obamacare waivers, the NLRB action against Boeing and IRS's gift tax assault on 501(c)(4) donors. They look like examples of crony capitalism, bailout favoritism and gangster government. One thing they don't look like is the rule of law.

Michael Arrington

Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.

Michael Badnarik

The government never does anything successfully.

Michael Badnarik

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

Michael Badnarik

The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians reject both extremes in favor of the government leaving control of your life to you.

Ray Bradbury

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Ramsey Clark

How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].

Rand Paul

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

Rand Paul

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

Rand Paul

I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

Rand Paul

It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.

Rand Paul

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.