Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Chesterfield

Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can;but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.

Mahmoud Abbas

The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.

Mahmoud Abbas

All of this wasn't enough - the Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule to arouse the government's hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them and to expand the mass extermination.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

All peoples are fed up with the American government.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Some segments within the American government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy, and its grips on the Middle East, in order to save the Zionist regime The majority of the American people as well as most nations and politicians around the world agree with this view.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.

Mahatma Gandhi

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

Mahatma Gandhi

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

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.

This is the ticket that will win in June, win in November and be ready to govern in January.

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.