Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thabo Mbeki

I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.

Margaret Murray

Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.

Margaret Haddix

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

Margaret Halsey

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

Kin Hubbard

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Kevin Systrom

In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure, because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.

Kevin Rudd

I've been around long enough to not take seriously statements like I am about to be crushed. I'm about how do we seek re-election of the Australian government, how we prevent Tony Abbott from being elected. The bottom line is that it should be all hands to the pump rather than saying other, frankly negative and internally divisive things.

Kevin Rudd

The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.

Michael Lewis

The Germans made just about every bad investment you could have made. They invested in Icelandic banks. They invested in Greek government bonds. They were heavy into Irish banks, big into Irish banks, and they bought U.S. subprime mortgage bonds.

Michael Enzi

Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.

Michael Bloomberg

Government is dysfunctional.

Michael Bloomberg

Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.

Michael Bloomberg

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

Michelle Bachelet

The priority for my government is that there will be development for everyone, equally.

Michele Bachmann

I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending.

Michele Bachmann

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

Michele Bachmann

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

Michele Bachmann

You should get to keep every dollar that you earn. That's your money. That's not the government's money.

Michele Bachmann

The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.

Michael Tanner

The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the break-up of low-income families have been extensively documented. The primary way that those with low incomes can advance in the market economy is to get married, stay married, and work—but welfare programs have created incentives to do the opposite.

Michael Oxley

The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.

Michael Parenti

Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on.

Michael Parenti

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

Michael Mandelbaum

First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right - at least in democracies.

Michael Mandelbaum

The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

Michael Howard

People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal.

Medea Benjamin

I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

Max Lucado

We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.

Max Lucado

It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so.

Max Baucus

Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry.

Maurice Strong

Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and the principle of taxation to finance agreed actions which provide the basis for governance at the national level. But this will not come about easily. Resistance to such changes is deeply entrenched. They will come about not through the embrace of full blown world government, but as a careful and pragmatic response to compelling imperatives and the inadequacies of alternatives.

Max Hastings

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.