Famous Quotes & Sayings

Every one says: 'Listen, I'd love to reinvest. I'd love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill is going to do to my bottom line. I have no idea what this financial reform bill is going to do... I'm not going to step out a limb and do any of those until I know what this government is going to do to me.

Oscar Levant

[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.

Oliver North

I would have promised those terrorists a trip to Disneyland if it would have gotten the hostages released. I thank God they were satisfied with the missiles and we didn't have to go to that extreme.

Margaret Atwood

If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.

Marcus Samuelsson

We can all agree that government cant solve the obesity crisis alone. Its an ongoing issue that will require a collaborative effort across private and public sectors if we want to see some long-term success.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Mara Liasson

Ted Cruz is a small-government conservative.

Kevin Mitnick

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.

Kevin Mitnick

No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.

Ken Livingstone

To avoid manufactured misunderstandings, the policies of Israeli governments are not analogous to Nazism. They do not aim at the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people, in the way Nazism sought the annihilation of the Jews.

Kelly Clarkson

I've always been about less government.

Margaret Thatcher

It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.

Margaret Thatcher

Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy areas now subject to majority voting... In our opinion, this must have serious implications for the traditional view of Parliament as a legislative body sovereignty.

Margaret Thatcher

Under a Labour government, there's virtually nowhere you can put your savings where they would be safe from the state. ... If you put money in a sock they'd probably nationalize socks.

Margaret Thatcher

Making change tolerable is one of the duties of Government.

Margaret Thatcher

At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law.

Margaret Thatcher

Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.

Margaret Thatcher

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Margaret Thatcher

The mission of this government is much more than the promotion of economic progress. It is to renew the spirit and solidarity of the nation.

Margaret Thatcher

It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.

Margaret Thatcher

The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.

Margaret Thatcher

The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out.

Margaret Thatcher

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

Margaret Thatcher

I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.

Margaret Thatcher

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

Margaret Thatcher

How very popular to say, 'spend more on this, expend more on that.' And of course, we all have our favorite causes; I know I do. But someone has to add up the figures. Every business has to do it, every housewife has to do it, [and] every government should do it.

Margaret Thatcher

The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.

Margaret Chan

We should never forget the government should be held accountable for providing services.

Margaret Chan

This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace.

David Cunliffe

Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production.

Ameen Rihani

Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly.