Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Crook

First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot.

Javier Solana

We hope very much from the Iranian side some movement will take place before that date. If nothing happens, the Iranian government should know what may happen on March 6.

J. C. Watts

Yesterday Governor Perry declared Texas a state of disaster.

We didn't think the government would have enough evidence. I don't think any of it is damaging.

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.

Richard Long

I would be surprised if the Government does intervene next week, as would a lot of others.

Jack Ma

I would do the same thing. I would let the government take him.

I grew up on a farm. I didn't have health insurance until I was 24 years old. So, I didn't even know I was poor until the government told me I was poor.

We took that to mean they think Governor Fletcher will win re-election.

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.

Carroll Quigley

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

Carroll Quigley

The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined...

Alan Keyes

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

Alan Keyes

Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.

Alan Dershowitz

I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him.

Al Franken

Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

Al Franken

The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.

Al Gore

Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by major emitters in the absence of major legislation. But it's a blunt instrument that is a little more difficult to use than a legislative remedy.

Al Gore

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

Al Gore

As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

Al Gore

The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global temperatures, but also from strengthening storms and expanding droughts to melting ice and rising seas, the costs of carbon pollution are already being felt by governments, corporations, taxpayers and families around the world. The climate crisis will affect everything that we love and alter the course of our future. Now, more than ever, we must come together to solve this global crisis. We must act decisively, rise to the occasion and solve this monumental challenge.

Charles Kettering

One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.

Charles Clarke

Yes is the answer to that question. I've enjoyed being in government... if it would be useful for me to serve I would like to do that. [saying he would like to work for Gordon Brown despite his previous opinions of him!]

Charles Colson

People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well

Charles Colson

A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.

Charles A. Beard

Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.

Our government should live up to the commitments we made in NAFTA rather than ignore it.

Our government in Mexico needs to know we are here.

Jahangir Khan

Pakistan is rich in sporting talent, but the only thing needed is to have sincere and honest administrators who should be held accountable by the government. Pakistan should be recognised as a sporting nation and not as a terrorist country.