Famous Quotes & Sayings

A special session may be premature, ... Do we have enough votes to do some of this? Is the governor willing to sign a sales tax abeyance into law?

Oliver Goldsmith

Those that think must govern those that toil.

What is important to the governor is that any proposal be real and balanced.

Bernie Sanders

We are not going back. We are not returning to the days of back-room abortions, when countless women died or were maimed. The decision about abortion must remain a decision for the woman, her family and a physician to make, not the government.

Bernie Sanders

We need a growing middle class, not one that has been disappearing for 40 years. We need a vibrant one person-one vote democracy, not one which is dominated by billionaire campaign contributors. It's time for a political revolution. It's time to make our government work for all of us, and not just the 1%.

Bernie Sanders

Let's ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there's nothing that the government can do to stop it.

Bernie Sanders

I do not accept the belief that the United States of America and our government can't stand up to the ripoffs of the pharmaceutical industry which charge us by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.

Bernie Sanders

It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%.

Bernie Sanders

Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1%... No more excuses. We must all become involved in the political process.

Gore Vidal

To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

You have to include local government if he wants local government go out and have meetings up and down the coast.

Thaksin Shinawatra

The whole world is concerned, and I think the Myanmar government understands,

Craig Benson

The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives.

These are the records from Governor Bush's administration going all the way back to the back wall.

There would simply be too much information for network operators to store all the data. The government has to be practical.

Howard Dean

There will soon be a Hispanic governor in the state of Texas. There are people sitting in this room who will run for governor.

There will never ever be a government led by an Indian, ever in Fiji.

Robin Cook

The Russian government throughout has sought to be as helpful as it can within its power, but that power is very limited in Chechnya,

The Russian government doesn't come because for 70 years they didn't have to worry about what the world thought of them.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Dalton McGuinty

I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Bud Selig

I've often said I won't rest until I rid the sport of steroids. If we can't solve our problems, then I submit to you the government should do what it has to do.

Michael Brown

I very strongly personally regret that I was unable to persuade Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin to sit down, get over their differences and work together. I just couldn't pull that off.

It was the same kind of thing as what you're seeing. We were getting material that was packaged to look like it was from a government entity.

It was well known by everyone, including the US government, that the system as constructed invited kickbacks,

Andrew Mitchell

There's nothing to be said for opposition. You can only talk about things and you can lay your plans. You can't actually achieve very much; you have to be in government for that.

William Lawson

The United States government is trying to sacrifice and use these six soldiers as scapegoats.

The United States government has to do more.

I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.

I stand side by side with Ronald Reagan on less taxes and less government.

Fidel Castro

I send you, the Party, the Government and the Korean people, our most sincere congratulations,

Is it the position of the government that the use of tobacco is safe and effective?