Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Carlin

Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy.

Garry Wills

Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.

Frederick Douglass

In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.

Frederick Douglass

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

Ferdinand Mount

We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

Felix Rohatyn

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

Felix Kramer

We commend GM for being the first out of the starting gate in the Great Plug-In Car Race of 2007. GM's announcements are the biggest victories yet for CalCars.org and other PHEV advocates. Now our campaign is in third gear. We'll work with the auto industry, government, fleet buyers and advocates to get to the day -- soon, not in a decade -- when customers can buy PHEVs as easily as any other car.

Ferdinand Marcos

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

Fisher Ames

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

Fidel Castro

No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

Fidel Castro

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

Herbert Hoover

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Herbert Hoover

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

Henry Mintzberg

If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.

Catharine MacKinnon

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

Geoffrey Fieger

It's a rare human being who understands intellectually and emotionally the freedoms contained within our Constitution and the right of every human being to make decisions about their own lives consistent with their own conscience and without the interference of government.

George J. Mitchell

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

Christine Gregoire

The US government should not be in the business of discrimination.

As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

Mo Ibrahim

Challenging vested interests requires a government's full commitment.

Hopefully the government doesn't make travel any harder than it has to be.

Homeland Integrated Security Systems has a very innovative product line that will be well received by our government and military sales channels.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Franklin Raines

We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.

Franklin Pierce

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

Franz Grillparzer

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

Frank Zappa

. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

Frank Zappa

It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds all nations together - the incompetence of all of their governments...The unions are the mafia, which is the CIA, which is the Catholic Church, which is the government, which is what's the difference? It's corrupt! It's the same guys pulling these strings, you know? One day he pulls the string and this lamp comes out, the next say he pulls the string and there's a missile coming out.

Jim Cooper

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

Jim Cooper

If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.

Jethro Tull

The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control.

Jeb Bush

We mustn't assume that we are going to deinvent government solely from inside the Beltway or within one or two sessions of Congress. We will do it one step at a time, in one community at a time - at the local level and through local institutions like churches, nonprofit and volunteer organizations and families.

Jeb Bush

Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn't grow, then government suffers.