Famous Quotes & Sayings

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.

If the government insists on this point, it will be a pity.

Ambika Soni

If the government has ordered, then even our ministry will have to implement it. But reservations are not the only solution.

If the government flatly and consistently refuses to provide figures, it means only one thing - it's been abusing the powers so flagrantly it can't give you figures.

If the government does not help us, we are ready to take up arms,

Karl Rove

He tried to psyche the governor out. And it didn't work.

Robert Hall

One of the focuses of the investigation will be the lack of regulatory oversight of government employees.

I was surprised (it failed). I thought Student Government was there to represent the interests of the students, but that didn't happen.

Richard Long

I would be surprised if the Government does intervene next week, as would a lot of others.

Jack Ma

I would do the same thing. I would let the government take him.

I grew up on a farm. I didn't have health insurance until I was 24 years old. So, I didn't even know I was poor until the government told me I was poor.

Laura Bush

She's restoring the public trust in government leadership.

On a number of issues, the government, I think, will be more sympathetic, but they're going to have to move very cautiously and very carefully.

Someday it will have to occur, the more we (expand) into counties. The real justification for a metropolitan government is if it can better serve people and save money. That will be the real cause.

Shi Tao is being unjustly punished by a government that routinely jails journalists.

Significant increases are possible with the right combination of government policy and technical interventions,

Kinky Friedman

She has a lot of money, I think. We don't. Of course, the governor does. We have a government of the money, by the money and for the money. ... That's not the American dream.

Since the imposition of sanctions in September 2004, the government maintained that this had no justification. Accordingly, we had urged the U.S. government to review the issue and withdraw the sanctions.

I have submitted a request to the government of Serbia for permission.

I have never heard amaranth being seized, ... It's never been used as a narcotic. It has no history being under government scrutiny.

I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want.

If by (Saturday night) the government doesn't withdraw this contract, we'll continue.

I can't imagine that we are going to get to a constituted government before more violence, more bluffing, more slamming of doors. This is for all the marbles, and people are going to play a tough game.

Jean-Claude Juncker

In the highest government office, you have to be ready to bow out at any time, otherwise you are not a free individual anymore.

Jim Garrison

In recent years... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach to justice - meaning, they tell you what justice is.

Jim Gibbons

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

Jim Gerlach

The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.

Jim Hightower

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

Jim Harrison

Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.

Jerry Pournelle

It's the nature of government, to build enduring institutions, structures that stay long after their purpose is over. If you pay people to help the poor, you have people who won't be paid if there aren't any poor, so they'll be sure to find some.

Jerrold Nadler

If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.

Jerrold Nadler

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.