Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Chretien

A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

Jean Chretien

Canadian federalism is more than a form of government. It's also a system of values that allows different people in diverse communities to live and work together in harmony for the good of all.

Jean Chretien

It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give a damn about the unemployed poor or provide services that are non-commercial by definition.

James Carville

Hurricane [Katrina] hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed much of the Gulf Coast - that was an act of God ... Now what happened to New Orleans, that was a complete failure of the federal government. Complete negligence by the feds.

James Carville

Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

James A. Garfield

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James A. Garfield

It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.

James A. Garfield

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

Jacques Verges

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.

Jacqueline Novogratz

There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.

Christopher Hitchens

It would have been very alarming - morally, and in other ways too - if an attack of that nature, the 11 September attacks, had not aroused in us and in our governments and societies the spirit of self-defence. If that had not been one of the responses it seems to me there would have been very grave cause for concern.

George Harrison

If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea.

Gary Webb

Authentic journalism is telling people something that the government doesn't want them to know.

Gary Ackerman

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

Gary Bauer

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

Gary Bauer

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

Garet Garrett

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

Garet Garrett

If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.

Garet Garrett

No government can provide social security. It is not in the nature of government to be able to provide anything. Government itself is not self-supporting. It lives by taxation. Therefore, since it cannot provide for itself but by taking toll of what the people produce, how can it provide social security for the people?

Garet Garrett

Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity. Either one must forbid the other or one will destroy the other. That we know. Yet never has the choice been put to a vote of the people.

Garet Garrett

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

Garet Garrett

Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

Garet Garrett

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

Fritz Sauckel

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

George C. Marshall

Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.

Christopher Gadsden

I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

Christine Pelosi

Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms.

Christine Quinn

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

Christine O'Donnell

America is now a socialist economy. The definition of a socialist economy is when 50% or more of your economy is dependent on the federal government.

Christina Romer

Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.

Chris Rock

The government doesn't want you to use YOUR drugs, they want you to use THEIR drugs.

Frances O'Grady

Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.