Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.

Benjamin Franklin

Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves and essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.

Barbara Tuchman

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Bob Hope

I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it?

Bill Gross

With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat.

Benjamin Tucker

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

Bob Schieffer

Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?

Charles Koch

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers. This growing partnership between business and government is a destructive force, undermining not just our economy and our political system, but the very foundations of culture.

Charles Koch

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

Charles Koch

We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.

John G. Schmitz

Any government that is big enough to give you whatever you want is big enough to take away everything you have got.

Any responsible government should make a positive response to this march.

Deborah Ellis

As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do, and I'm used to that. I'm used to not having my government tell me my life is going to be restricted because I'm female.

Cory Booker

As a government leader, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines and watch all these other sectors innovate. I'm going to do everything I can as a leader to be in that innovation, to be a provocateur for that innovation.

Vali Nasr

A unity government is very unlikely now. The gulf between them is wide right now.

As people get more and more entrenched in government less people are likely to tell him the truth.

Rand Paul

Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.

People did not vote for us so that we would head a government of the Right and the ultra-Orthodox. It is totally illegitimate and also stupid.

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Any development at Government House will move the market. (If there's violence), the index will likely head down to 700 quickly.

Thabo Mbeki

And therefore it's a matter that we discussed, and I am quite sure that the Zimbabwe government will take the necessary steps to have that matter addressed,

Anything that government and industry learn from hackers must be seen through the lens of their own risk management needs.

The situation as it is, is thus inequitable and will have to be addressed by government at some stage.

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

The suspect is dead, his will has been burnt, his weapon can't be found, and yet the government is refusing to look into the truth.

The survey ships are Japanese government ships, not private ships, and Japan has jurisdiction over them.

Richard Powers

The threat from the outside or corporations outside of government agencies, is increasing very dramatically each year.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

I've never been an oligarch. The definition of an oligarch is someone who has co-operated with the government, and I never did.

I used to do it undercover for many years for the government, so I can tell you how simple it is.

Tommy Lapid

I want a secular government, I want separation of state and religion, I think logic will prevail and we will have a secular government for the first time in Israel's history.

Pat Mitchell

The one thing I hear over and over again, wherever I am ... is that people want to be sure if they're supporting this institution that it's not a government mouthpiece,

The oil ministry is working with the government in order to speed up the payment process. There is no problem. It is just a matter of time and the money will be paid.