Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lyndon B. Johnson

The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

Luke Johnson

At some point the Japanese, Chinese and Saudi buyers of US and European Government bonds will see just what miserable value they offer. Then governments may have to stop all the runaway spending and bailouts and even put up interest rates.

Lucas Papademos

Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.

Lucas Papademos

The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary.

Louis Armstrong

The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!

Louis D. Brandeis

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Lord Byron

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Lord Chesterfield

Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can;but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.

Mahmoud Abbas

The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.

Mahmoud Abbas

All of this wasn't enough - the Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule to arouse the government's hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them and to expand the mass extermination.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

All peoples are fed up with the American government.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Some segments within the American government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy, and its grips on the Middle East, in order to save the Zionist regime The majority of the American people as well as most nations and politicians around the world agree with this view.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.

Mahatma Gandhi

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

Mahatma Gandhi

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]

Henry Paulson

There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention.

Johann Lamont

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

John Major

You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own.

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.

It's about money, permanent and significant damages. It's also about accountability on the part of the government and the media.

Robert Novak

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets, ... Meet the Press.

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

Dick Armey

The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions.

Dick Armey

[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom, just waiting for us to pick the whole thing up and heave it away. It has to happen. Free people can put up with such laws only for so long.

Dexter Scott King

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

David R. Brower

Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.