Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Beatty

Government is not show business.

Warren Buffett

If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.

Warren Buffett

Let only individuals contribute - with sensible limits per election. Otherwise, we are well on our way to ensuring that a government of the moneyed, by the moneyed, and for the moneyed shall not perish from the earth.

Warren Buffett

Investors have to remember: corporate profits are going up, but stocks are going up faster. How can that continue indefinitely? Investors can only earn what companies themselves can earn; the government or the markets themselves don't kick anything in. How can you get anything more out of a farm than what it grows?

Warren Buffett

Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists.

Walter Bagehot

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Walter Bagehot

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.

Walter Bagehot

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

Walter Bagehot

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.

Walter Cronkite

We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and judiciary and police.

Walter Cronkite

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.

William Blum

The Soviet Union and something called communism per se had not been the object of Washington's global attacks. There had never been an International Communist Conspiracy. The enemy was, and remains, any government or movement, or even individual, that stands in the way of the expansion of the American Empire; by whatever name the US gives to the enemy - communist, rogue state, drug trafficker, terrorist.

William Blum

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

William Blackstone

If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.

William Blackstone

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

Walid Muallem

In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of jihad.

Samuel Chase

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

Samuel Horsley

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

Salman Khurshid

You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.

Salman Rushdie

The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

Wesley Snipes

I didn't defraud the government by taking money that was not mine.

Wesley Snipes

We should be able to go to our government and get clear answers.

Wanda Sykes

It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.

Wangari Maathai

The women of the Green Belt Movement have learned about the causes and the symptoms of environmental degradation. They have begun to appreciate that they, rather than their government, ought to be the custodians of the environment.

Josiah Warren

Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.

Josiah Stamp

The Government are extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases!

Joseph Estrada

There is only one government in the Philippines and that is how it will stay,

Joseph Farah

Charity is not a government program.

Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.

Konrad Adenauer

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Kofi Annan

The U.N. power comes from concerted action of the governments.

Kofi Annan

It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people.