Quotes about govern
government agents common
Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments. Robert Toombs
government numbers people
Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and are becoming disillusioned from politics. People don't like voting. Whoever you vote, government gets in. Whatever they promise, they never fulfill. Satish Kumar
government definitions patriot
The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government. Sarah Vowell
government friendly speech
Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations. William Henry Ashley
government presidential examination
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged. William Henry Harrison
government show-business shows
Government is not show business. Warren Beatty
government investing partners
If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off. Warren Buffett
government earth way
Let only individuals contribute - with sensible limits per election. Otherwise, we are well on our way to ensuring that a government of the moneyed, by the moneyed, and for the moneyed shall not perish from the earth. Warren Buffett
government remember profit
Investors have to remember: corporate profits are going up, but stocks are going up faster. How can that continue indefinitely? Investors can only earn what companies themselves can earn; the government or the markets themselves don't kick anything in. How can you get anything more out of a farm than what it grows? Warren Buffett
government average years
Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists. Warren Buffett
government political excellence
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. Walter Bagehot
government presidential waiting
Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns. Walter Bagehot
government quality doe
Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity. Walter Bagehot
government criticism phrases
It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government. Walter Bagehot
government police historical
We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and judiciary and police. Walter Cronkite
government argument function
It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing. Walter Cronkite
government dresses revolution
We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.
government names giving
The Soviet Union and something called communism per se had not been the object of Washington's global attacks. There had never been an International Communist Conspiracy. The enemy was, and remains, any government or movement, or even individual, that stands in the way of the expansion of the American Empire; by whatever name the US gives to the enemy - communist, rogue state, drug trafficker, terrorist. William Blum
government matter imagine
No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine. William Blum
government judging rejection
If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government. William Blackstone
government political excellence
Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other. William Blackstone
government names groups
In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of jihad. Walid Muallem
government order safety
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. Samuel Chase
government safety may
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor. Samuel Horsley
government hiccups body
You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body. Salman Khurshid
government west revolution
The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution. Salman Rushdie
government enemy needs
Government is the enemy until you need a friend. William Cohen
government stupidity interest
If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life. Robertson Davies
government giving-money people
The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government, which commits uncounted billions of the national wealth to what it calls defence, and is close-fisted in giving money to plans which would ameliorate the grinding poverty of a great part of its people. Quite simply, in Canada you could not get away with that. Robertson Davies
government way politician
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
government doe burning
The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular cross burning is intended to intimidate. The First Amendment does not permit such a shortcut. Sandra Day O'Connor
government results resources
The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result. Sandra Day O'Connor
government needs unnecessary
The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government. Rose Wilder Lane