Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hugh Jackman

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.

Ivan Krastev

As a rule, governments monitor people.

H. L. Mencken

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

J. Reuben Clark

The principle of allegiance to the Constitution is basic to our freedom....when you see government invading any of these realms of freedom which we have under our Constitution, you will know that they are putting shackles on your liberty, and that tyranny is creeping upon you, ...no matter what the reason and excuse therefore may be.

Pell Grants open a lot of doors, but they rely on a solvent government.

Our position would be that it is, and always has been, government property.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

Dianne Feinstein

All vets are mentally ill in some way and government should prevent them from owning firearms.

Ben Carson

Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

What do you think, what people want from their governments? Simple. A better life for themselves and for their children. Government that is fair, just and responsible.

We don't like the government to tell us what to do.

Paul Bremer

the question is how do we select a transitional government by the end of June.

We are no pariah state. This government will prove this.

Abbas Kiarostami

The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They're not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them.

Fernando Meirelles

When I first read the script, the political side of the story really interested me. I was interested in talking about pharmaceutical companies, and how corporations and government work together,

Ludwig von Mises

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions...

Ludwig von Mises

The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.

Ludwig von Mises

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

Grover Norquist

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

Jaswant Singh

We will revert shortly to the government of Pakistan with alternative dates,

Newt Gingrich

We owe the American people the right to know what happened. They have the right to know whether or not the American government was undermined by the Chinese.

The government wants us stay in place and the WFP wants to stay.

Anthony Foxx

Not every innovation in transportation is going to come from government or even a large enterprise. There are smart people out there with tools and skills to come up with great ideas.

We're there to help the indigenous people. We're not involved with any government agencies, not involved with the CIA, not involved with uranium mining. Our purpose there is to help the people.

The government should take measures to lower house prices.

The government should not be using the immigration laws as instruments of censorship.

The government regrets very much ... which is the perpetrator of the violence, will have to take responsibility.

Andrew Lansley

The government has done too little too late to protect the health of the population -- in June 2004 I told the government to produce a comprehensive strategy,

The government acknowledges his great talent which is why it continually exempts him from his obligation to serve with the National Guard. He has proved worthy of the understanding shown towards him.

Andrew Lansley

You don't come into government thinking it is going to be easy.

Edward Snowden

What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?

Daniel Morgan

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.