Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Jackson

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Amiri Baraka

If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.

Allyson Schwartz

The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.

Anthony Albanese

Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.

Anthony Albanese

Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.

Andy Stern

Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow smaller- not stronger- our ability to act as an economic mechanism to distribute the gains of our work and raise all workers' wages and benefits up is disappearing.

Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out?

The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.

Andy Rooney

I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.

Andy Rooney

In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.

Journalists say your government has pressured printing houses not to print many independent newspapers.

I take appointments from the governor seriously. I didn't want to miss the first meeting,

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

Boris Yeltsin

Today is a very responsible moment, since we have been left without a government for two weeks. That means lost money and lost opportunities,

Terry McAuliffe

Today, I'm for Governor Dean, ... because he's the only one who's told me he's running.

Alex Jones

People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.

Kevin McCarthy

What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

He's got to open it himself; the government can't kick it in.

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

I thought for sure the government at some level would have solved my problems for me, but since that doesn't look like it's going to happen, we have to go this route.

Buzz Aldrin

I think you have to talk to your congressman to try to get the government to want to work with the private sector.

Tommy Thompson

I think the governor is putting this out to see what response he might get, ... It's an indication the governor recognizes we have these revenue challenges.

Jim Murphy

I think the government ought to stay out of other people's business.

I think the government could do much better.

It is getting harder and harder to support the government in the style to which it has become accustomed.

This was not unexpected. Madison is a government town.

Donald Harrison

What does the state government know that is preventing them from going forward? They know something we don't know.