Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Howard Taft

It is not impossible, of course, after such an administration as Roosevelt's and after the change in method that I could not but adapt in view of my different way of looking at things, that questions should arise as to whether I should go back on the principles of the Roosevelt administration.... I have a government of limited power under a Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law. Now, if that is reactionary, then I am a reactionary.

William Howard Taft

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

William Howard Taft

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

Warren Christopher

I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.

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.

Virginia Foxx

China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.

William Cohen

Government is the enemy until you need a friend.

William Cobbett

Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.

Wayne LaPierre

If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed.