Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are being harmed because our government is not functioning at 100 percent.

Kevin Johnson

We hope to better serve the government in this initiative.

We hope that after the protests the government ... withdraws the text. There is no other solution.

We don't confer government power on religions, and we don't give religious organizations government power.

We don't support unnecessary government intrusion into private marketplace negotiations.

Condoleezza Rice

We really want to be ready to hit the ground running with this new government when it's ready to go.

We have some people running around saying the sky is falling. Others say this is the opportunity we have been waiting for, that we can do government with less.

It doesn't matter who his running mate is, he is the one running for governor and he is the one who would wield the veto pen in office.

Craig Stevens

It doesn't matter that the government opens the strategic reserves because there is very little slack in the refining business,

Theresa May

I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.

Bianca Jagger

I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

It didn't used to work very well because it was so heavily regulated by the government.

Megan Smith

The American government will be whatever we all make of it.

On a number of issues, the government, I think, will be more sympathetic, but they're going to have to move very cautiously and very carefully.

Someday it will have to occur, the more we (expand) into counties. The real justification for a metropolitan government is if it can better serve people and save money. That will be the real cause.

Shi Tao is being unjustly punished by a government that routinely jails journalists.

Significant increases are possible with the right combination of government policy and technical interventions,

Albert Einstein

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

Albert Einstein

I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.

Algernon Sidney

If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the ends of government are accomplished . . .

Algernon Sidney

The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who cannot provide for both give the people a right of taking such ways as best please themselves, in order to their own safety.

Alfred North Whitehead

Governments are best classified by considering who are the "somebodies" they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy.

Alexander Berkman

Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.

Aldo Leopold

Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .

Aldous Huxley

My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .

Albert Einstein

Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.

Albert Einstein

A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.

Albert Einstein

Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate, they would have much more freedom to follow their consciences.

Alexander Lebedev

Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder.

Alexander Herzen

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

Alexander Hamilton

If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number.

Alexander Hamilton

If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the most exact standard of perfection, society would soon become a general scene of anarchy, and the world a desert.

Alexander Hamilton

A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.