Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hillary Clinton

The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.

Herbert Hoover

Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.

Herbert Hoover

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Herbert Hoover

All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

Herbert Hoover

Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.

Herbert Hoover

Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.

Herbert Hoover

Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.

Herbert Hoover

We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.

Herbert Hoover

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

Evgeny Morozov

Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.

Evgeny Morozov

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

Evgeny Morozov

WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.

Evgeny Morozov

North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.

Evan Esar

Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.

Eugene Ionesco

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

Esther Dyson

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

Esther Dyson

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

Ezra Klein

A government shutdown, it isn`t the end of the world. It`s a bad thing. The government stops working for a few days. We cover it a lot. Polls turn against who ever made it stop working.

Evita Peron

In government, one actress is enough.

Evita Peron

The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.

Evita Peron

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .

Erykah Badu

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

Erykah Badu

Im a hip-hopper, and its something you live and do. It makes me angry that were misrepresented, that were being killed every day by one another, by the government, by the food we eat, the choices we make. It makes me angry because it doesnt have to be that way and it is.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

Federico Fellini

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Fawn Hall

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

Fatos Nano

Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

Fareed Zakaria

Germany is a fascinating role model. The Germans have maintained their manufacturing edge despite being a high-tax, high-regulation economy. Why? Because the government really set about ensuring that it maintained funding for technical training, technical advancements and programs. It made a concerted effort to retain high-end, complex manufacturing -- the kind of BMW model, if you will. And they've done that so successfully that Germany, which has a quarter of America's population, exports more than America does.

Ezra Stiles

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

Ezra Taft Benson

By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot claim the power to redistribute money or property nor to force reluctant citizens to perform acts of charity against their will. Government is created by the people. No individual possesses the power to take another's wealth or to force others to do good, so no government has the the right to do such things either. The creature cannot exceed the creator.

Ezra Taft Benson

That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression.

Francis Atterbury

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

Francis Bacon

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.