Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Lhota

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

Joe Lieberman

There are extensive contacts between Saddam Hussein's government and al Qaeda.

Jimmy Carter

I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or who are blacks trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods. This is a natural inclination. [..] Government should not break up a neighborhood on a numerical basis. As soon as the Government does, the white folks flee.

Jimmy Carter

I am not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods.

John C. Malone

There's an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don't get to come to all the meetings.

John C. Calhoun

The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.

John C. Calhoun

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

John C. Calhoun

It is federal, because it is the government of States united in a political union, in contradistinction to a government of individuals, that is, by what is usually called, a social compact. To express it more concisely, it is federal and not national because it is the government of a community of States, and not the government of a single State or Nation.

John C. Calhoun

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

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.

Frederick Jones

As we stated before, the U.S. government does not support the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline.

Bill Clinton

All of us -- parents, schools, communities and government -- share responsibility to keep kids safe.

David Harsanyi

A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.

Rajnath Singh

It seems like the government is kneeling before the US.

It's a scary thought. People aren't going to be willing to let government on their property if there is a risk the government is going to come back and take it.

Megan Smith

Americans really expect to interact with our government digitally.

Rick Nelson

Americans have the right to meet in their homes for prayer or to study religious materials without government interference.

They have all of these trailers down there, ready for people to live in, and yet no one can move in because the government is refusing to pay for mobile homes.

They did their duty, and got screwed -- the government didn't treat them very well.

Scott Armstrong

This, essentially, retroactively withdraws those records from view and makes government unaccountable.

This actually, in terms of posting the staffing plans, is about not having the government tell hospitals and nurses how to staff their units. It's about providing the right care, not the same care.

This is a molehill case, and the government is going to have to make a mountain out of it.

They should not be compromised just so the Government can trumpet about police numbers.

Andrew Brown

They're waiting for what the government has to say rather than what the national project has to say.

Warren Christopher

It is unacceptable for the government to be warning media sources to report only one side of the emergency.

It's not like they're not getting any redistribution from the government. We want less income redistribution, not more.

It's the stop-loss that ticks me off, ... He kept his word, and the government doesn't have to keep its.

Patty Murray

The year of the women, however, I have to tell you, ought to be the year of people, ... Look at this room. It's not just women. It's not just men. It's young people. It's old people. It is enthusiasm. It is us taking our government back and we did it.

Thabo Mbeki

This particular controversy has not impacted on government whatsoever.

Morgan Spurlock

There was a time when science was respected by politicians and government officials and when the information obtained through unbiased scientific exploration was used for the better of society.