Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Coolidge

No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.

Calvin Coolidge

If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government... The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.

Calvin Coolidge

Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished.

Burt Rutan

Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts. By contrast, our program involves a few, dedicated individuals who are focused entirely on making spaceflight affordable.

John Shimkus

I am a Republican because of my military background, my pro-life beliefs, my support for the Second Amendment, and my belief that government should not grow excessively.

I am sure that the Japanese government will be very pleased that message and image are being sent out.

Avigdor Lieberman

I am sure that next time we will be the governing party.

Dennis Kozlowski

I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.

But the development that government will support is that which is transparent and adheres to the laid down procedures and not one which inconveniences other sectors of the nation or raises serious suspicions.

Thomas Mann

Bush's partisan style of governance has reinforced it.

Marco Rubio

More government isn't going to help you get ahead. It's going to hold you back. More government isn't going to create more opportunities. It's going to limit them.

More Kentucky businesses, especially restaurants, are going smoke-free voluntarily. If an increasing number of restaurants are doing that on their own, why do we need government interference? Why not let the market decide?

My goal, my number one focus, is to secure that border. If our government won't secure the border, we the people will help them.

My government won't lie to you, and we won't steal, ... And this is a solemn pledge.

Maybe the losing government is doing some kind of engineering.

No one was pleased with the response by the government - federal, state or local.

Ariel Sharon

No previous government was successful in obtaining such commitments from the American administration,

Never before has a new government hit the public with so many burdens.

Robert Zoellick

needs a political transition to make its government responsible and accountable to its people.

Stephen Ambrose

Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job.

New judge, new justice minister. The new government says there is going to be accountability so here we go, let's have some.

Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.

Never in recent history has so much government money been put into so many programs with so little oversight and so little proven impact.

Obviously the Pakistani government isn't thrilled with this relationship, and they've said that publicly.

Obviously, if there are severe price spikes and severe shortages, we would want to take a look at whether a government response

Nobody will look good, the AU, the government or the (rebel) movements, but the real victims will be the people on the ground.

Joe Browne

Nobody's going to do anything until the governor is consulted.

I have submitted a request to the government of Serbia for permission.

I have never heard amaranth being seized, ... It's never been used as a narcotic. It has no history being under government scrutiny.

I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want.

If by (Saturday night) the government doesn't withdraw this contract, we'll continue.

I can't imagine that we are going to get to a constituted government before more violence, more bluffing, more slamming of doors. This is for all the marbles, and people are going to play a tough game.

John Poindexter

I didn't particularly want to come back into government and run it. However, in the end, it seemed like the only way we could get it off the ground.