Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kent Conrad

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

Kent Conrad

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.

Kathleen Sebelius

The essence of good government is trust.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

I was sitting alone in a grim mood - furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. But it inspired me - from now on, all haircuts, etc., that are necessary and important for his campaign - please send the bills to me. ... It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.

Rafik Hariri

The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.

Rafik Hariri

I have... submitted the resignation of the government, and I have declared that I will not be a candidate to head the (next) government.

Rahm Emanuel

I hope President [Hamid] Karzai understands that our national security interests don't depend entirely on his decision there whether to allow a recount. Obviously the legitimacy of that government is an important component of it. My point is it shouldn't be the lynch pin for us deciding whether we're going to protect our national security interests in that region.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morality is the object of government.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The less government we have the better.

Scott Rigell

Have the government get out of the way.

Scott Ritter

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.

Leo Baekeland

I also served on many government committees.

Lenny Bruce

The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.

Lee H. Hamilton

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

Lee H. Hamilton

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

L. Ron Hubbard

If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.

L. Ron Hubbard

When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life.

Thom Yorke

Americans are ugly unwashed clods that live off of government cheese. If I could, I'd take every living American, grind them up into a fine paste and use that paste to feed the dolphins, because they are neglected by the evil Americans.

Theresa May

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought

Terry Tempest Williams

Well, we are Americans. I've always believed that you work with where you are - I am a Mormon woman who was raised on the edge of the Great Salt Lake in the American West in the United States of America. But, by the same token, much of my life has been spent resisting traditional forms of democracy, resisting traditional forms of orthodoxy, be it the United States government or the Mormon Church.

Terry Pratchett

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

Terry Pratchett

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

Terence McKenna

National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.

Terence McKenna

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.

Ted Haggard

The importance of the Bible to a church is to keep the church on track. The role of the Constitution in government is to keep the government on track.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

Sean Hannity

And the other issue is Gore, $4.6 trillion - the single largest expansion of government in American history, from universal preschool, now, to prescriptions to health care - it is Socialism 101.

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.