Famous Quotes & Sayings

Penn Jillette

We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.

Penn Jillette

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

Penn Jillette

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

Penn Jillette

Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

Marquis De Custine

In Russia, whatever be the appearance of things, violence and arbitrary rule is at the bottom of them all. Tyranny rendered calm by the influence of terror is the only kind of happiness which this government is able to afford its people.

Mariano Rajoy

The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing.

Sheikh Hasina

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

Sherwood Boehlert

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.

Sherwood Boehlert

So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.

Nick Turse

If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.

Nick Earls

Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen has been the Queensland premier the whole time we've been in Australia, and the state is a national joke for having a Deep North government thats said to resemble governments of a generation or more ago in some parts of the US Deep South - governments that always talk about getting things done and never talk about rights.

Nick Clooney

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.

Nick Clegg

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.

Nick Clegg

[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.

Nigel Lawson

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Nigel Farage

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

Nassau William Senior

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to the slightest hiccup. But not to worry: their large staff of scientists deemed these events "unlikely."

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.

N. T. Wright

All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.

Millard Fillmore

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till we can get rid of it without destroying the last hope of free government in the world.

Mignon McLaughlin

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

Johnny Kelly

I don't like the idea that the government has so much of a say in things.

Johnny Isakson

Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

John Winthrop

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

John Poindexter

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.

John Prescott

He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]

John Quincy Adams

The political system of the United States is essentially extra-European. To stand in firm and cautious independence of all entanglement in the European system has been a cardinal point of their policy under every administration of their government from the peace of 1783 to this day...Every year's experience rivets it more deeply in the principles and opinions of the nation.

Mark Twain

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

Mark Twain

Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.