Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I am going to run for governor of the state of California,

Peter Clarke

My first thought was, why would the governor of New York own a piece of junk like this?

No one in the Pakistan government has made such a request that such maps be removed.

David Williams

No one in government is making hard choices,

Chellie Pingree

No one branch of the U.S. government should have supremacy over the other two.

Daniel Levy

One time handouts and welfare payments will not solve the problem of rising poverty. The government needs to help people increase their skills, which ultimately help increase productivity levels.

Dan Bartlett

Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.

While government may mean well, it doesn't always get the job done. It doesn't always have all the answers.

The question would be how much leeway does the government official have to do that kind of snooping without proper judicial review? That to me is the issue.

The question was whether the government could (regulate advertising) under the provisions of the act,

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

Barry Eisler

When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

We have to find places that we protect away from government so that we can all be the unique and interesting and, in my case, somewhat deviant people we'd like to be.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Will Rogers

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you

Robert Green Ingersoll

Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people.

Antoine Predock

The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of plant materials, how they huddle together for protection. Some are nurse crops.

We have sent it back to Washington and the United States government will look into it very carefully.

This should be a local decision. The governor has always been a strong supporter of home rule.

Lupe Fiasco

If you are an open-minded and tolerant Muslim, you have enough knowledge to question the moves of a Christian governor or even the Ku Klux Klan. They called themselves a Christian organization, but how is that possible since Jesus didn't do that?

The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced.

Lyn Nofziger

These things I believe: that government should butt out.

This government has always said increasing pay is something for something.

The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.

Evan Williams

I think Twitter will be a fundamental part of how people interact with their government.

Christianity is permitted under China's constitution, and the government has long supported a network of official Christian churches.

Francine Busby

This is not about being liberal. This is not about being conservative. This is about making sure our government works for all Americans.

Fatos Nano

Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

Edward Snowden

What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?

Jack Layton

A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.

Antonin Scalia

Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.

Gary Johnson

I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.