Famous Quotes & Sayings

George W. Bush

Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists - and every government that supports them.

George W. Bush

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

George W. Bush

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

George W. Bush

Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.

George W. Bush

There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government. I reject that notion.

George Sutherland

A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.

George Tenet

You deserve better from your entire government, all of us.

George Soros

Giving government aid to a bank basically transforms it into a utility. The huge salaries in this sector are only a symptom of a more profound misalignment. The profitability of the finance industry has been excessive. That is absurd.

George Soros

To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.

George Soros

I call government that works the best for people open society, which is basically just another more general term for a democracy that is - you call it maybe a liberal democracy. It's not only majority rule but also respect for minorities and minority opinions and the rule of law. So it's really a sort of institutional democracy.

George Soros

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

George Reisman

The average American of today is intellectually so far removed from his forbears that instead of regarding government with apprehension, he is more likely to regard it as a virtual parent, concerned only with protecting and helping him

George Reisman

Global warming is not a threat. But environmentalism's response to it is....Even if global warming is a fact, the free citizens of an industrial civilization will have no great difficulty in coping with it-that is, of course, if their ability to use energy and to produce is not crippled by the environmental movement and by government controls otherwise inspired.

George Carlin

You know what I like about the American form of government? They've worked things out so that you're never far from a 7-Eleven.

George Carlin

Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy.

Garry Wills

Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.

Frederick Douglass

In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.

Frederick Douglass

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

Ferdinand Mount

We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

Felix Rohatyn

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

Felix Kramer

We commend GM for being the first out of the starting gate in the Great Plug-In Car Race of 2007. GM's announcements are the biggest victories yet for CalCars.org and other PHEV advocates. Now our campaign is in third gear. We'll work with the auto industry, government, fleet buyers and advocates to get to the day -- soon, not in a decade -- when customers can buy PHEVs as easily as any other car.

Ferdinand Marcos

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

Federico Fellini

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Fawn Hall

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

Fatos Nano

Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

Fareed Zakaria

Germany is a fascinating role model. The Germans have maintained their manufacturing edge despite being a high-tax, high-regulation economy. Why? Because the government really set about ensuring that it maintained funding for technical training, technical advancements and programs. It made a concerted effort to retain high-end, complex manufacturing -- the kind of BMW model, if you will. And they've done that so successfully that Germany, which has a quarter of America's population, exports more than America does.

Ezra Stiles

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

Ezra Taft Benson

By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot claim the power to redistribute money or property nor to force reluctant citizens to perform acts of charity against their will. Government is created by the people. No individual possesses the power to take another's wealth or to force others to do good, so no government has the the right to do such things either. The creature cannot exceed the creator.

Ezra Taft Benson

That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression.

Francis Atterbury

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

Francis Bacon

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

Jennifer Dunn

Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.

Jeff Sessions

Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view.