Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donna Brazile

People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't trust the media.

Noam Chomsky

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

Mike Miller

Without help from our government we'd be out of business.

Subcomandante Marcos

With its military and media campaign, the government has managed only to reduce the already narrow space for intermediate positions,

We have maintained at least 400 police officers at Government House as we know that anti-government rallies will continue.

Louis Farrakhan

When the government wants something, they have to justify what they want by doing something -- whether it injures a hundred, whether it injures a thousand, whether it injures millions,

We welcome Libya's first steps toward reform. But the government has a long road to travel before it meets the international standards of human rights.

We often times go into situations where the government is difficult. This is one of them. I have not seen anything like this.

We paid the price and we'll have to wait and see if the premier will pay the price for putting his political friends in high-profile, high-paying government positions.

Newt Gingrich

We owe the American people the right to know what happened. They have the right to know whether or not the American government was undermined by the Chinese.

Ronald Reagan

I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Those would be significant openings. It would get government out of those decisions.

We don't need a state government run from yachts. I will make policy in the state Capitol, not in the Bahamas.

We can't only be tied to Quebec's demands, but at the same time we take seriously the recommendations of the Quebec government because it's a major player,

J. D. Salinger

We don't want to get the Russians involved, but unless the U.S. government cooperates, we may have to.

Michael Franti

To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.

We already noticed that some senior U.S. government officials have made irresponsible remarks,

The order does get the government what it probably needed, not what it wanted.

We're not in negotiations with the State of Texas at this time. We have been contacted by the state government a while back. We've been contacted by various state governments over the past several months. We're only considering the state of Mississippi.

we think the governor might be spending money that he doesn't have.

Stephen Harper

Why is the government not suing the Liberal party to recover the money that was lost or stolen?

James Langevin

To me, that's the role of government: not to give people a hand out, but a hand up... giving people the tools to pave their own way to success.

Woodrow Wilson

Too much law was too much government; and too much government was too little individual privilege,- as too much individual privilege in its turn was selfish license

Chelsea Clinton

When I was born, my father was governor of Arkansas.

Kurt Vonnegut

The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher of warm spit. That's because TV will not come and treat it respectfully. Television is really something.

Kurt Vonnegut

The government satirizes itself. All we can wish is that there will be a large number of Americans who will realize how dumb this all is, and how greedy and how vicious. Such an audience is dwindling all the time because of TV.

Vandana Shiva

To create the protection for the corporations, government is actually growing bigger than ever before, in every part of the world. Yet it’s growing extremely thin as a protector of people.

Vandana Shiva

We have reached a stage where governments and political processes have been hijacked by the corporate world. Corporations can within five hours influence the vote in the U.S. Congress. They can influence the entire voting patterns of the Indian Parliament. Ordinary people who put governments in power might want to go in a different direction. I call this the phenomenon of the inverted state, where the state is no longer accountable to the people. The state only serves the interests of corporations.

Vandana Shiva

It is often too late by the time the government reacts.

This suggests the government saw more real growth and less inflation in the quarter.

We keep our government informed. The next step is for the EC to respond.

We thought it was an important issue and so did the governor as well.

We're not ready to lose. The governor has reached out to the other side.