Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Al Alvarez

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

Artie Lange

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

Joe Sinagra

Perhaps the taxpayers should also take it as personally insulting when they are being sold out.

Dasha Zhukova

If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally.

James Welch

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.

Amy Poehler

If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.

Asghar Farhadi

I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.

Andre Maurois

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised

Anthony Holden

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Elbert Hubbard

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

Bono

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

Benjamin Disraeli

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Albert Einstein

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

Albert J. Nock

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

David A. Bednar

The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion.

Georg Brandes

What is public opinion? It is private indolence.

Nicolas Chamfort

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.