Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim DeMint

Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.

Jim DeMint

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

I do not have influence on the government of Dubai.

Huey Long

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

Howard Stern

I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.

Howard Berman

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

Ibrahim Ali

The Muslim Brotherhood can't even penetrate the Egyptian government,

Ibrahim Ali

The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions

Ibrahim Rugova

As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.

Ice Cube

Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through.

Ice Cube

The biggest change in the government's behavior has been because of TV and its ability to show to the world what has happened in this community... that's the biggest change. But without TV... the separation between the government and the people would be much worse than it is.

Ian Macfarlane

A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.

Govern thyself then you will be able to govern the world.

Francis Schaeffer

If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.

Francis Schaeffer

We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable certainty leads in the direction of statism. This is so because humanists, having no god, must put something at the center, and it is inevitably society, government, or the state.

Francis Quarles

Of all the difficulties in a state, the temper of a true government most felicifies and perpetuates it; too sudden alterations distemper it. Had Nero tuned his kingdom as he did his harp, his harmony had been more honorable, and his reign more prosperous.

Hugh Jackman

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.

Horace Walpole

Our supreme governors, the mob.

Horace Mann

A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.

If I waited for government to help I'd still be living in a hotel in Oklahoma.

If he was going to do something, he'd have to do it before then. I don't know that it's likely the governor will be making any pardons.

If I'm elected, I would govern as though I were a one-term selectman,

I can't tell you why government does what it does. In the private sector, this doesn't happen. If they are sincere about making a deal, there's nothing to prevent us from going right back to the table and getting it done. It's just that simple. And we're ready to do it today.

Mike Mason

I can walk away from this and be OK with it. The sun is going to come up tomorrow, and government is going to keep on running. And my life will go on, and hopefully, get a lot better as I move into obscurity.

I don't see the government being able to overcome internal contradictions before that.

I don't think they were confused, I think they may have said some things to the government taken out of context. I think this reporter put the spin the government wanted to put on it.

Bill Richardson

How New Mexico Government Works: The Key Players and Key Issues.

Elton Gallegly

It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.

Jason Priestley

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.

Hill Harper

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

Hillary Clinton

One lesson I have learned the hard way, and there will not be any such thing in the White House. Although, I am quick to add, there's no evidence that it was ever hacked. And unfortunately, you can't say that for a lot of the government.