Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwight Schultz

We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all.

Colin Quinn

It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work. Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government and we have two choices for who’s our leader. In fascism you only have one choice. That’s great. We have one more choice than the worst form of government.

Colin Powell

I served 40 years in government, and I - I'm not looking forward to a position or an assignment. Of course, I have always said if a president asks you to do something, you have to consider it. But I am in no way interested in returning to government. But I, of course, would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me.

Colin Powell

There is no suggestion of regime change; quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined toward change.

Joel Salatin

We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat.

Bob McDonnell

The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times.

I saw what government programs were and how they were executed. In some cases, they were executed beautifully, but in others, there was tremendous waste.

Ibrahim Babangida

Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

I. F. Stone

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

There are no easy solutions for Israel's own governance problems.

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.

Albert Bushnell Hart

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

Albert Bushnell Hart

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.

Albert Bushnell Hart

In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

Alastair Campbell

All of this is happening because there has still been no reckoning post the financial crisis. So governments have fallen, one bloke has been to prison, the banks have gone pretty well back to status quo, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. And it's fuelling anger. And somehow [Donald] Trump, who represents the worst aspects of capitalism, has persuaded people he can deal with that.

Albert Gallatin

Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals, as if he could do it better than themselves.

Albert J. Nock

Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the production of others. 'Government money,' of which one hears so much nowadays, does not exist; there is no such thing.

Albert Camus

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Albert Camus

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Annie Besant

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

Clayton Christensen

Government mandates, incidentally, are likely to distort rather than solve the problem of finding a market. I would, therefore, force my organization to live by its wits rather than to rely on capricious subsidies or non-economic-based regulation to fuel my business.

Daniel Inouye

There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

Daniel J. Boorstin

In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.