Quotes about govern
government bitcoin currency
Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
government worry risk
The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to the slightest hiccup. But not to worry: their large staff of scientists deemed these events "unlikely."
government next usual
My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.
government decision velocity
The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers. N. R. Narayana Murthy
government justice needs
All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged. N. T. Wright
government evil presidential
God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till we can get rid of it without destroying the last hope of free government in the world. Millard Fillmore
government delinquency plague
The plague of government is senile delinquency. Mignon McLaughlin
government ideas
I don't like the idea that the government has so much of a say in things. Johnny Kelly
government hands spending
Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine. Johnny Isakson
government democracy form
A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government. John Winthrop
government data people
Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people. John Poindexter
government british-politics robins
He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook] John Prescott
government years political
The political system of the United States is essentially extra-European. To stand in firm and cautious independence of all entanglement in the European system has been a cardinal point of their policy under every administration of their government from the peace of 1783 to this day...Every year's experience rivets it more deeply in the principles and opinions of the nation. John Quincy Adams
government people insult
The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.
government republican manners
The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
government age democracy
The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.
government self community
The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.
government purpose source
To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to the public weal is the purpose for which Government was instituted.
government independence progress
Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?
government long chinese
There is a long standing tradition of using code to evade censorship in China, so that goes on. The trouble is the Chinese government has created the world's most sophisticated censorship machine. John Palfrey
government neutrality pursue
The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. John Paul Stevens
government self people
At bottom, the court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.
government people perceive
Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths. Norman Cousins
government cost debt
These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost. Norm Dicks
government too-late good-things
A bloody good thing, but too late. Noel Coward
government overcoming scientist
I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions. Nina Fedoroff
government would-be littles
I know these days it sounds a little odd, but American governments are very fearful of European reaction. They were afraid we would be considered gunslingers. Michael Scheuer
government needs
Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether. Michael Newdow
government would-be world
A new chapter in the history of international politics has begun, one in which the pursuit and control of energy resources would be the central dynamic of world affairs, and governments. Michael Klare
government agriculture people
Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery. Mark Twain
government mind earth
Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.
government greek citizenry
The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government. Marianne Williamson
government people levels
People tend to have a government that reflects the level of consciousness of the majority of people who voted.