Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ralston Saul

Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right to literally purchase the copyright of a citizen's potential contribution to society. In a democracy they should not have the legal right to silence the quasi-totality of the functioning élite in order to satisfy a managerial taste for control and secrecy.

John Ralston Saul

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.

John Ralston Saul

Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed by the people who went on to become part of the Fascist experience: (1) shift power directly to economic and social interest groups; (2) push entrepreneurial initiative in areas normally reserved for public bodies; (3) obliterate the boundaries between public and private interest -- that is, challenge the idea of the public interest. This sounds like the official program of most contemporary Western governments.

John Ralston Saul

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

John Scalzi

I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.

John Perry Barlow

The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable

Nick Turse

If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.

Nick Clooney

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.

Nigel Lawson

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.

N. T. Wright

All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.

John Prescott

He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]

Marianne Williamson

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

Martin Van Buren

In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.

Michael J. Saylor

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

Mark Potok

What we are seeing is there is a lot of anger out there about the failure of the government to resolve the immigration crisis.

Mark Poster

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

Mark Dayton

If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.

Patricia Schroeder

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

Oscar Wilde

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

Oscar Wilde

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

Lou Barletta

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

Michael Jackson

People are always saying: 'They'll take care of it. The government will. Don't worry, they will'. They who? It starts with us. It's us. Or else it'll never be done.

Abraham Lincoln

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

New judge, new justice minister. The new government says there is going to be accountability so here we go, let's have some.

On a number of issues, the government, I think, will be more sympathetic, but they're going to have to move very cautiously and very carefully.

I have never heard amaranth being seized, ... It's never been used as a narcotic. It has no history being under government scrutiny.

I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want.

Jennifer Pahlka

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

James Carville

Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

Christopher Hitchens

It would have been very alarming - morally, and in other ways too - if an attack of that nature, the 11 September attacks, had not aroused in us and in our governments and societies the spirit of self-defence. If that had not been one of the responses it seems to me there would have been very grave cause for concern.

Hillary Clinton

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.