Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.

Mahatma Gandhi

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

Mahatma Gandhi

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

Mahatma Gandhi

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

Gautam Adani

Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.

Gail Collins

Lobbyists really are experts in their fields and know what they are talking about. That's why the government always listens to them as they tell the government what it's doing wrong and what it should be doing instead...

Fred Upton

I do know that all of the Michigan delegation worked very hard as related to the revival of the auto industry. There was really a choice between bankruptcy and liquidation. There was no one that was willing to come up not only with the cash to keep them afloat but also to serve the warranties of everyone, you and I that drive all these cars. There was no one that could have picked up those pieces other than the federal government. [The auto bailout was] bipartisan from the get-go. [Without it,] Michigan would have hit 40 percent unemployment rates.

Fred Thompson

If we have more people on the receiving end of government - more people as the middle class becomes sucked in more and more to these entitlement programs, for example - then we're going to be in a place where it's going to be hard to go back. It's going to be hard to go back again. It's going to be hard to take away stuff. It's not impossible.

Fred Thompson

There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours.

Maggie Gallagher

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.

Norman Ralph Augustine

By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.

Orrin Hatch

The debate over judicial nominations is a debate over the judiciary itself. It is a debate over how much power unelected judges should have in our system of government, how much control judges should have over a written constitution that belongs to the people.

Orrin Hatch

In our system of government, the judicial and legislative branches have different roles. Judges are not politicians. Judges must decide cases, not champion causes. Judges must settle legal disputes, not pursue agendas. Judges must interpret and apply the law, not make the law.

Orson Pratt

The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics

Orhan Pamuk

I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this.

Olympia Snowe

I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.

Oliver Stone

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers,

Emile Zola

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

Ellen Goodman

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

Ellen Glasgow

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

Eric Schmidt

In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.

Eric Schmidt

It's very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it's so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want to hear multiple voices. They want to make their own decisions. And people who see things will report things.

Eric Schmidt

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything,

Eric Alterman

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

Emil Ludwig

Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.

Heidi Heitkamp

We can only imagine what would happen to our health care and to the quality of our health care here in North Dakota if we took the federal government out of health care.