Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

We want to work with other parts of the U.S. government, being able to (use) members of their organizations. We want to work formally ... with them and do everything we can to make them successful.

We are electing a permanent government, so more people will be interested.

The president is the head of the constitutional government in Mauritania.

Ed Rendell

Unfortunately, government has become a spectator sport. You can't have a government interested in sitting on the sidelines. This administration has done a marvelous job of lowering people's expectations.

Ehud Barak

The real question is who will lead the government and to where ... and on this question a unity government headed by Netanyahu is not the answer,

Adam Weishaupt

But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents.

Hillary Clinton

If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.

Frank Rich

My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly.

Barton Gellman

Snowden has yet to tell me anything that was a fact that I have been able to rebut or that anybody in the U.S. government I have talked to has been able to rebut.

Barton Gellman

The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.

P. J. O'Rourke

When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.

P. J. O'Rourke

The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.

We often times go into situations where the government is difficult. This is one of them. I have not seen anything like this.

We paid the price and we'll have to wait and see if the premier will pay the price for putting his political friends in high-profile, high-paying government positions.

Newt Gingrich

We owe the American people the right to know what happened. They have the right to know whether or not the American government was undermined by the Chinese.

David Cameron

Government has the power to help improve well-being

Dave Eggers

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

David Limbaugh

Democrats have always wanted to grow government with revenues from our society's producers. They aren't sincere about reducing the deficit, because they will not abandon their addiction to spending other people's money.

David Limbaugh

It's one thing to maintain that upper-income earners should pay higher tax rates because they are better able to shoulder the burden for essential government services. But it's constitutional blasphemy to claim that the tax code should be used as a weapon against the wealthy and that the state should be the tyrannical arbiter of how income is distributed.

David Limbaugh

If Republican legislators succumb to their political addiction to compromise for the sake of getting something passed, no matter how odious, they'll be laying out the red carpet of inevitability for socialized care. Once government gets its foot in the door, more government control is unavoidable.

David Limbaugh

Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history.

David Limbaugh

The government is a heartbeat away from nationalizing health care based on deliberate misinformation about the nation's uninsured and despite the 100 percent failure rate of such fantastic reforms elsewhere on the globe.

David Limbaugh

When the coercive power of government is used to equalize incomes, it guarantees less prosperity across the board and spreads the misery, which is one of the many reasons Marxism and socialism have failed everywhere they've tried.

David Gergen

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

David O. McKay

I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!

David Mamet

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

David Mamet

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

David Mamet

We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.

Darrell Issa

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

Darrell Issa

Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.

Darrell Issa

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

Danica Patrick

I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.

Condoleezza Rice

The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world.