Quotes about govern
government conservative helping
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." Ronald Reagan
government stupidity interest
If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life. Robertson Davies
government giving-money people
The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government, which commits uncounted billions of the national wealth to what it calls defence, and is close-fisted in giving money to plans which would ameliorate the grinding poverty of a great part of its people. Quite simply, in Canada you could not get away with that. Robertson Davies
government ends domination
For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government. Robert Payne
government bills violence
The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood! Robert Peel
government people france
My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength. Robert Peel
government way politician
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
government patterns systematic
If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government. Robert M. Pirsig
government people information
Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another. Vito Fossella
government panic damage
A financial panic is a very bad thing, but a government panic can do far greater damage in a far shorter time. Tom McClintock
government should-have years
State Department allowed Hillary Clinton to remove and destroy government email records, and now we 've figured out the State Department is improperly giving government documents to the Hillary Clinton operation -- documents that should have been turned over to us years ago. Tom Fitton
government tickets doe
The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does. Tom G. Palmer
government tickets census
The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket. Tom G. Palmer
government years discipline
John Kerry's newfound interest in fiscal discipline is a political gimmick that defies his 20-year record in the Senate and stands in stark contrast to his reckless and expansive promises of new government spending on the campaign trail. Steve Schmidt
government hands trying
We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values Steve Forbes
government chinese losing
The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao. Steve Forbes
government people money-power
There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result. Steve Forbes
government mafia balance
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. Steve Allen
government serious-person organization
Global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the U.N. panel. The IPCC is not a scientific institution: it's a political body, a sort of non-government organization of green flavor. It's neither a forum of neutral scientists nor a balanced group of scientists. These people are politicized scientists who arrive there with a one-sided opinion and a one-sided assignment. Vaclav Klaus
government law moral
Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly. Vaclav Havel
government people
People, your Government has returned to you! Vaclav Havel
government able reputation
Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation. Vaclav Havel
government shelter fifty
Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the government. Uwe Boll
government path boundaries
We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives. Tulsi Gabbard
government hands lunch
We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, 'I'll be damned. we're Republicans.' Susana Martinez
government voice safety
They'll be granted immunity!" I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full of resonant. "You will personally pledge this in front of the entire population of District Thirteen and the remainder of Twelve. Soon. Today. It will be recorded for future generations. You will hold yourself and your government responsible for their safety, or you'll find yourself another Mockingjay! Suzanne Collins
government defense legitimacy
... governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology ... Taslima Nasrin
government people tools
"There's no CEO for the government." But if you were CEO for a day at the government, would you have tools and reports and wherewithal to look at government the way a business would look at its lines of business, its spending, its revenue? I've actually been working, first by myself and then with a group of people, on then on and off, and now much more on, almost since the I time left Microsoft. Steve Ballmer
government states harder
It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal. Steve Ballmer
government data perspective
I've been doing lot of work, and hopefully will bring it to fruition in a way people can see it, really understanding - this is going to sound funny, but what does government really do, how is it really funded, and what measures exist to evaluate how it does at what it does? No forecast, no policy, no prediction, just a realistic perspective on what is. Call it like a "10k for government" we've been working on with a website, with additional data. Steve Ballmer
government abuse glare
Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur. Stephen Hawking
government limits initiative
It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile federal government can encroach upon legitimate provincial jurisdiction. Stephen Harper
government should-have matter
We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters. Stephen Harper