Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Antonin Scalia

Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.

Gary Johnson

I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.

Gray Davis

As the governor of this state, I obviously see the issue quite differently.

Ehud Barak

The real question is who will lead the government and to where ... and on this question a unity government headed by Netanyahu is not the answer,

Mike Smith

There are many pluses from a governance point of view in trust structures.

Diane Abbott

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

Alexander Hamilton

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Adam Weishaupt

But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents.

Hillary Clinton

If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.

Frank Rich

My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly.

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.

Dan Bartlett

Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.

While government may mean well, it doesn't always get the job done. It doesn't always have all the answers.

The question would be how much leeway does the government official have to do that kind of snooping without proper judicial review? That to me is the issue.

The question was whether the government could (regulate advertising) under the provisions of the act,

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

Barry Eisler

When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

We have to find places that we protect away from government so that we can all be the unique and interesting and, in my case, somewhat deviant people we'd like to be.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Will Rogers

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you

Robert Green Ingersoll

Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people.

Antoine Predock

The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of plant materials, how they huddle together for protection. Some are nurse crops.

We have sent it back to Washington and the United States government will look into it very carefully.

This should be a local decision. The governor has always been a strong supporter of home rule.

Anthony Foxx

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

Anthony Foxx

Not every innovation in transportation is going to come from government or even a large enterprise. There are smart people out there with tools and skills to come up with great ideas.

Anne Wojcicki

There's massive government initiatives going around the world, and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.