Quotes about government
government community doubt
We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities. Wendell Berry
government giving want
If you want to liberate a government, give them the Internet. Wael Ghonim
government self people
Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which are continuously subjected to critique, rebuttal, and reexamination. William O. Douglas
government silence constitution
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
government libertarian-party america
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
government election threatening
We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government. Zoe Lofgren
government mandate recount strong
Recount or no recount, there's going to be a government without a strong mandate or much flexibility.
government happened people politics relationship religion secular separation taught tried
I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular relationship to government 2,000 years ago, and those people were the Jews. Elaine Pagels
government power private skepticism suspicion
It has to do with our suspicion and skepticism of government power being able to take private property. John Cornyn
government job
Individuals usually do a better job than the government. Rob Lowe
government open people
If we want to have open government and have people participate, they need to know how to get involved.
government revolving
In my case, there's no revolving door... I won't be going back to government. Mary Schapiro
government ought people
In all that people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere. Abraham Lincoln
government people plenty
I know plenty of people in China who don't like what their government does to the Falun Gong, but they don't want to entrust their data to the Falun Gong, either. Rebecca MacKinnon
government
I'm not going to do anything that heralds in a Tory government. Nicola Sturgeon
government group local organized organizing shore south
Their group has not yet formed. They have just been kind of organizing as local government representatives on the South Shore but have not formalized their working group or organized with the public.
government grab interested israeli lasting peace people saw skeptical wants
The Israeli people are skeptical about the chances of a long-term peace, but if they saw it, they'd grab it. Any Israeli government that wants to be reelected should be interested in a lasting peace.
government russia doe
The government in Russia does not tell me what to do with my assets. Mikhail Prokhorov
government hold majority parliament power
A government that does not have a majority in parliament does not really hold power and that should be changed. Jaroslaw Kaczynski
government giving firsts
The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else. Henry Hazlitt
government-intervention needs groups
A Day never passes without some ardent reformer or group of reformers suggesting some new government intervention, some new statist scheme to fill some alleged 'need' or relieve some alleged distress.
government chance form
No, a euro referendum will not be part of a government programme if we get the chance to form one, Helle Thorning-Schmidt
government people republican
I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government. Heather Wilson
government liberty libertarian
Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. Henry David Thoreau
government law let-it-go
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly the machine will wear out… but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.
government doe copernicus
Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?
government asks
I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government
government law people
The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman. Henry Ford
government voice people
Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion. Mahatma Gandhi
government challenges quality
We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government. John Abizaid
government size reducing
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government James Q. Wilson
government economy states
We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls. James Goldsmith
government government-employees employee
As a government employee, you can't testify against the government. James Hansen