Famous Quotes & Sayings

Menzies Campbell

It may well be that there wasn't very much the government could do.

It's going to take a miracle for Berlusconi to win. The government has run out of steam.

It's going to require all levels of law enforcement and government to cooperate.

Katherine Harris

We have to have the faithful in government.

John Battelle

Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.

Theresa May

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.

Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Anarchy is... a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness , formed through the development of science and law , is alone sufficient to maintain order and guarantee all liberties.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, exhausted, hoaxed and robbed; then, upon the slightest resistance, at the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, annoyed, hunted down, pulled about, beaten, disarmed, bound, imprisoned, shot, judged, condemned, banished, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and, to crown all, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

the government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves

Nelson Mandela

The USA is a threat to world peace. Who are they to pretend that they are the policemen of the world, the ones that should decide for the people of Iraq what should be done with their government and their leadership. All that [the USA] wants is Iraqi oil. [Blair is] simply the foreign minister of the United States. He is no longer prime minister of Britain.

Nelson Mandela

If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.

Nelson A. Miles

Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people.

Neil Young

All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.

Neil Young

Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities

Neil Young

On one side the government, the other side the mob.

Rachel Maddow

if you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.

Mike Huckabee

It's time for the government to scale back, not for people of faith to scale back!

Mike Huckabee

I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

Niccolo Machiavelli

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Newt Gingrich

For the system of government you fashioned including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly, if inadvertently, oppressive and dangerous to our welfare. It must be radically changed and a new system of government invented, a democracy for the 21st century. For this wisdom, above all, I thank Mr. Jefferson who helped create the system that served us so well for so long, and that now must, in its turn, die and be replaced.

Newt Gingrich

Government should take management lesson from private sector.

Newt Gingrich

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

Newt Gingrich

Indicate which principles you support regarding affirmative action and discrimination. 1. The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs. 2. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the public sector. 3. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the private sector.

Newt Gingrich

1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton.

Newt Gingrich

The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.

Nhat Hanh

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

Noah Webster

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

Noam Chomsky

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.