Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dianne Feinstein

All vets are mentally ill in some way and government should prevent them from owning firearms.

Kofi Annan

We are going to work with the Congolese people and the government to make sure we make progress and consolidate peace and stability.

Walter Benjamin

The U.S. doesn't recognize the laws of Cuba. They can kidnap anybody and bring them back to the States to face the so-called justice system. There's no telling what the U.S. government will do to me. I'm in constant danger; I guess I've gotten used to it.

Walter Benjamin

People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.

Walter Benjamin

I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism.

Walter Benjamin

I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the U.S. government’s policy towards people of color.

Walter Benjamin

All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?

The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.

Bob Ainsworth

You have to make the compromise: resign, stay out of the government, and you can say what you like... but no one has to do anything about it.

Alex Gibney

The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.

Andre Rieu

I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.

Bill Clinton

Today we can declare: Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the solution.

Gautam Adani

When you are in the infrastructure sector, you've to work along with the government.

Gautam Adani

Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

Ben Carson

Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

Ben Carson

I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.

Tony La Russa

If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

What do you think, what people want from their governments? Simple. A better life for themselves and for their children. Government that is fair, just and responsible.

We don't like the government to tell us what to do.

Mario Cuomo

You have these people who don't like the government they're supposed to be running,

Hooman Majd

Inside Iran, people are actually quite well-educated about America. There are things they don't understand, particularly in the government, but the people, by and large, know the American sensibility quite well, and the reverse is not true.

The government should spend more time on promoting tourism in Sydney.

whether it is sufficiently meeting systemic needs is largely left up to whether we trust the government.

We're not sitting on our hands waiting for someone to hand us money. With smaller watershed groups and state and local government being open to new ideas, our job is to see that other solutions are being put into practice.

We are pursuing peace with all tolerance and commitment, but this should not be taken as our weakness. The government is trying to show its goodwill.

We are optimistic about establishing a national unity government that can represent a national attitude.

Richard Boucher

We are operating within a U.N. mandate, and we intend to do as much as we can and look for other ways to provide support for the Macedonian government well within that mandate,

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Gallagher

I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Andy Stern

Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.