Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bonnie Raitt

In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.

Barry Goldwater

And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.

Barry Goldwater

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

Barry Goldwater

I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.

Barry Goldwater

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.

Barry Goldwater

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

Barbara Boxer

Our message will be that we're going to make federal government buildings a model - an energy-efficient model - and also start matching grants for cities and counties so that they can also do the same with their government buildings.

Barbara Bush

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

Arjun Makhijani

Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage .... One of the most remarkable features of this damage has been the readiness of governments to harm the very people that they claimed they were protecting by building these weapons for national security reasons. In general, this harm was inflicted on people in disregard of democratic norms. Secrecy, fabrication of data, cover-ups in the face of attempted public inquiry, and even human experiments without informed consent have all occurred in nuclear weapons production and testing programs.

Antonio Munoz Molina

One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

Antonin Scalia

The government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.

Edmund Muskie

You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.

Edmund Burke

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

Edmund Burke

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

Edmund Burke

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

Edmund Burke

In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

Edmund Burke

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

Edmund Burke

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

Edmund Burke

The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.

Elif Safak

I am very worried about this concentration of power, and it's not only because of Erdogan. We have the ballot box, but we don't have the culture of democracy. The government says: You see, we have the majority, we're entitled to do anything we want. But that's not democracy, that's majoritarianism.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.

Edward Norton

It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

Edward Norton

It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.

Edward Norton

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

Edward Snowden

Acting Government officials, they said they wanted - they would be happy, they would love to put a bullet in my head, to poison me as I was returning from the grocery store, and have me die in the shower.

Edward Snowden

Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I realized that I was part of something that was doing far more harm than good.

Edward Snowden

I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.

Edward Snowden

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

Edward Snowden

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

Edward Snowden

Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to the government, but our futures.

Conan O'Brien

The British government has urged its citizens to abstain from alcohol at least two days a week. Or to make it easier to remember, whenever they brush their teeth.

Conan O'Brien

Today in Washington, D.C., several government buildings were left without power. Of course, the White House will be without power for two more years.

E. W. Howe

The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.