Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Acton

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

Lord Acton

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

Katherine Harris

A narrow 'yes' vote means we're going back for our kids, but we want to send a strong message to government that we're not happy.

All the parties that receive petrol revenue - including the oil companies, service stations and Government - need to be more accountable.

Richard Boucher

And, as I said, this has been something the whole U.S. government has worked on.

And Governor Riley has worked ever since then to implement it.

Edward Bennett Williams

Civil liberties are a great heritage for Americans. They are not rights that the government gives to the people, they are the rights that the people carved out for themselves when they created the government.

Edward Albee

The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.

The market is dithering, because on the one hand we have the interest-rate gap, but on the other we have still large U.S. government debt.

Henry W. Kendall

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.

Henry Steele Commager

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

Henry Steele Commager

Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.

Joseph Addison

The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.

Jose Saramago

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Jose Manuel Barroso

Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.

Jose Ramos-Horta

The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on.

Jonathan Zittrain

Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.

Jonathan Swift

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.

Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

Benchmarks, yes, we want the Iraqi government to do the things that will show progress. But to say, American troops are going to leave, no matter what's happening on the ground, is surrender. There is no other word for it.

Jonathan Sacks

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

Naomi Wolf

In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.

Narendra Modi

The government must nurture an eco-system where the economy is primed for growth; and growth promotes all-rounddevelopment. Where development is employment-generating ; and employment is enabled by skills. Where skills are synced with production; and production is benchmarked to quality. Where quality meets global standards; and meeting global standards drives prosperity. Most importantly, this prosperity is for the welfare of all. That is my concept ofeconomic good governance and all round development.

Narendra Modi

Government systems suffer from two weaknesses. They are complex. And they are slow. We need to change this. Our systems need to be made sharp, effective, fast and flexible. This requires simplification of processes and having trust in citizens. This needs a Policy Driven State.

Narendra Modi

First, we need to focus government on the things that are required of the State. Second, we need to achieve competence in government so that the State delivers on the things it sets out to do.

Narendra Modi

BJP is not going to the people only to form a government. We have come to the people to give stability and a development oriented government.

Narendra Modi

From my experience of having served for 3000 days, I can say that anything can be achieved.