Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barton Gellman

Snowden has yet to tell me anything that was a fact that I have been able to rebut or that anybody in the U.S. government I have talked to has been able to rebut.

Barton Gellman

The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.

P. J. O'Rourke

When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.

P. J. O'Rourke

The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.

We often times go into situations where the government is difficult. This is one of them. I have not seen anything like this.

We paid the price and we'll have to wait and see if the premier will pay the price for putting his political friends in high-profile, high-paying government positions.

Newt Gingrich

We owe the American people the right to know what happened. They have the right to know whether or not the American government was undermined by the Chinese.

Ronald Reagan

I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Those would be significant openings. It would get government out of those decisions.

We don't need a state government run from yachts. I will make policy in the state Capitol, not in the Bahamas.

We have maintained at least 400 police officers at Government House as we know that anti-government rallies will continue.

Louis Farrakhan

When the government wants something, they have to justify what they want by doing something -- whether it injures a hundred, whether it injures a thousand, whether it injures millions,

We welcome Libya's first steps toward reform. But the government has a long road to travel before it meets the international standards of human rights.

O. Henry

We want to work with other parts of the U.S. government, being able to (use) members of their organizations. We want to work formally ... with them and do everything we can to make them successful.

We are electing a permanent government, so more people will be interested.

The president is the head of the constitutional government in Mauritania.

Ed Rendell

Unfortunately, government has become a spectator sport. You can't have a government interested in sitting on the sidelines. This administration has done a marvelous job of lowering people's expectations.

We are pursuing peace with all tolerance and commitment, but this should not be taken as our weakness. The government is trying to show its goodwill.

We are optimistic about establishing a national unity government that can represent a national attitude.

Richard Boucher

We are operating within a U.N. mandate, and we intend to do as much as we can and look for other ways to provide support for the Macedonian government well within that mandate,

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Gallagher

I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Vicente Fox

The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy,

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

John C. Calhoun

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.

Natalie Maines

To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.

Dick Cheney

There's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government

Dianne Feinstein

All vets are mentally ill in some way and government should prevent them from owning firearms.