Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Novak

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

Martti Ahtisaari

It is up to the government how they organize themselves. It's none of my business.

Dan Burton

It's a great day for Indiana. The hard work at all levels of federal, state and local government has paid off.

It's a rare occasion when we see government assessing and making government small.

It really points out to government and hospital administrators that it's not all about financing. It's about people's lives, and it's the right thing to do.

It's a hard time to be in government right now. You are going into November with an unusually sizeable number of weakened incumbents. It looks like you have two political parties this year that are hell-bent on losing.

It prompts speculation that perhaps the government was using information that was illegally obtained.

It provides health insurance to everyone in the commonwealth without a government takeover and without raising taxes.

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

This is the last of the governor's initiatives to dismantle government and get rid of entitlement spending for the less fortunate.

This is a very, very significant win for the government.

Jeff Flake

There just is no vision for limited government,

Anthony Marra

At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.

Ed Nelson

It was on Government Island, which is now Alameda, when they held the (1940) World's Fair.

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

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

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.