Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Robinson

Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.

Geoff Hoon

The Government have made it clear that the constitutional treaty will be ratified in the UK only after a referendum.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

Lord Acton

There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.

Lyn Nofziger

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]

And Governor Riley has worked ever since then to implement it.

Henry Paulson

There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention.

Johann Lamont

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

John Major

You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own.

John Locke

If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.

It's about money, permanent and significant damages. It's also about accountability on the part of the government and the media.

Robert Novak

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets, ... Meet the Press.

This is the most secure note the U.S. government has ever produced.

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.