Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Peter McWilliams

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

Lee Kuan Yew

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this

Marco Rubio

We will have to work around the world with less than ideal governments. The government in Saudi Arabia is not a democracy, but we will have to work with them. The government in Jordan is not perfect, but we will have to work with them. But anti-American dictators like [Bashar] Assad, who help Hezbollah, who helped get those IEDs into Iraq, if they go, I will not shed a tear.

Sheila Jackson Lee

The minority must have involvement in society. You can have different cultural practices that you accept. But if you are going to adopt democracy in government, then the government itself must allow the minority to be heard.

Neil Peart

No his mind is not for rent, to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent, he knows changes aren't permanent. But change is.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing so weakens a government as inflation.

John Kenneth Galbraith

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

Leo Tolstoy

The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

Peter Costello

Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between one House and another, compromise between the States and the Commonwealth and compromise between groups of persons with legitimate interests and other groups with other legitimate interests. There is room for compromise.. indeed demand for it.. in a system of checks and balances.

Scott Rigell

Have the government get out of the way.

Lee H. Hamilton

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

Theresa May

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought

Lewis H. Lapham

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lewis Black

How our government works... it doesn't.

Paul Keating

If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.

Jim Talent

The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.

John F. Kennedy

The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.

Jonathan Mayhew

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.

Jonathan Kozol

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

Jon Stewart

But our perfect democracy, which neither needs nor particularly wants voters, is a rarity. It is important to remember there still exist many other forms of government in the world today, and that dozens of foreign governments still long for a democracy such as ours to be imposed on them.

Jon Stewart

The government that governs best, governs best!

James Madison

The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny.

James Madison

Democracy is the most vile form of government.

James Madison

That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations.

James Madison

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

John Hay

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

John Hancock

The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.

John Locke

If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.

This is the most secure note the U.S. government has ever produced.

Calvin Coolidge

Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety. If taxes and debt are made all the people can bear when times are good, there will be certain disaster when times are bad.

The government wants us stay in place and the WFP wants to stay.