Quotes about govern
government people needs
I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around. Kim Campbell
government way socialism
Carli Fiorina says companies are consolidating because it's the only way to compete with big, corrupt government. "This is how socialism starts." Is that also why she bought Compaq when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard? Kevin Drum
government-intervention abortion decision
This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life. Kathleen Turner
government carbon carbon-tax
There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead. Julia Gillard
government mind messages
I love a novel that’s funny, and The Taxman Cometh is very funny, delightfully well-written, yet with a serious message about how government bureaucracy affects us all. Read. Enjoy. And if a comparison to Catch 22 pops into your mind, that’s not surprising. Marvin Kalb
government law confusion
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them. Mark Twain
government swings people
I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums to not swing back automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back. Neal A. Maxwell
government people needs
When everyone is part of the people's congress, what need is there for an opposition? Opposition to what? You oppose a government! If there is no government, and the people govern themselves on their own, what are they going to oppose? Something that isn't there? Muammar al-Gaddafi
government league important
We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish. Mitch Daniels
government dollars three
The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.
government doe saving
We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government
government needs behavior
Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
government white people
The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected. Mitch McConnell
government effort trying
It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this.
government social paid
The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.
government delay levels
While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.
government president today
I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today. Mikhail Khodorkovsky
government work-out needs
I need to work outside government, on my own, Marian Wright Edelman
government giving people
The federal government would give money to the states. States would be able to negotiate at local rates. It's not Medicaid. People didn't want it to be Medicaid in Washington, either. Maria Cantwell
government cities destroying
To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the society but not wantonly destructive, moreover, it is more difficult for Government to quell it by superior force. Martin Luther King, Jr.
government people trying
Well, nobody's being deported - nobody - practically. And so what the people down there getting is the American government is telling us that you're not going to be able to stay. But, in fact, they're letting almost everybody stay. And so what they're trying to do is show that at least some people are going to get deported. Mark Krikorian
government liberty minorities
In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces. Mikhail Bakunin
government order citizens
A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events. Mikhail Gorbachev
government civilization community
The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably have multiple political consequences. Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change in the status of the United Nations. Inevitably, it must assume some aspects of a world government.
government people care
People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care. Mike Conaway
government needs helping
You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change. Nicholas D. Kristof
government headache taxes
Is it me, or is the government more concerned about its own tax headaches, than your tax headaches? Neil Cavuto
government
Who controls the issuance of money controls the government! Nathan Meyer Rothschild
government evil democracy
The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil. Nathan Myhrvold
government greed intellectual
If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collectively. Government isn't always the problem. It's sometimes the solution. And, so their whole intellectual scaffolding collapses. So, they'd rather deny the science. Naomi Klein
government dungeons self-destruction
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.
government development may
Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development. Ha-Joon Chang
government failing communist
No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government. Jim Bunning