Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Browne

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

Harry Browne

So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the Mafia. So to be more precise, government is the agency of coercion that has flags in front of its offices.

Harry Browne

Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.

Harry Browne

The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk".

Harold MacMillan

Although I am still in favour of a National Government in these difficult times, and shall probably be found in the great majority of cases in the Government Lobby, there are some issues that have arisen, or are likely to arise, upon which I am unable to give the Government the support which it has, perhaps, the right to expect from those receiving the Government Whip. It occurs to me, therefore, that it would perhaps be more satisfactory if I was no longer regarded as being among the supporters of the present Administration.

Harold MacMillan

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

Rob Lowe

Individuals usually do a better job than the government.

John Sherman Cooper

I must say, to be very honest about it, that I held in my mind during the life of the Commission, that there had been three shots and that a separate shot struck Governor Connally.

I'm happy the queen will be here when the government may fall. It's a great civics lesson.

I'm happy only because I know it's something that keeps the government in the circle,

If the President does not withdraw this idea for a Joint Mechanism, we will leave the government on June 16.

I just think that we need a government that is, perhaps, more open. I think we need to be more proactive, rather than reactionary.

Jeb Bush

I released 34 years of tax returns and 300,000 e-mails in my government record. To get the information from Hillary Clinton, you need to get a subpoena from the FBI.

I dont know if the governor is as in touch with the communities as he thinks he is sometimes,

Imran Khan

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system

Imran Khan

I have no clear idea about this development, however, I have full faith in the government's peace talks committee. I suggest TTP choose its representatives from among its own leadership

Jack Layton

I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track.We'll support positive suggestions that we'll bring forward and support the government when it's making progress.

John McCallum

It will be a huge task, with major implications on jobs and users of government programs.

It's a very Social Democrat-oriented government, but that doesn't necessarily mean it can't get reforms done.

Michael K. Powell

It's about time the (Federal) Government stopped pussyfooting around,

It's about money, permanent and significant damages. It's also about accountability on the part of the government and the media.

Robert Novak

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets, ... Meet the Press.

Martti Ahtisaari

It is up to the government how they organize themselves. It's none of my business.

Dan Burton

It's a great day for Indiana. The hard work at all levels of federal, state and local government has paid off.

It's a rare occasion when we see government assessing and making government small.

Daniel Patterson

It's very highly endangered, in the Coachella Valley especially. The next step, hopefully, is that the government will stop delaying and do the right thing for the lizard.

It's very important that (a fix) be done through the private sector, and not through a single, one-size-fits-all government program that's going to straight-jacket senior citizens,

Dick Cheney

I want to do as well as the governor did.

Robert Anderson

I want the governor to do something. I'm pretty sure that if it was me doing this to his son, I would have been locked up.

I wanted to say that (the characters) are alive, but that they're being governed by winter.

Tom Rath

It took each of them a little while to get used to the other and in the end this was inevitable. I don't think the governor was taken by the pressure one way or the other. I think the governor was not going to be rushed. He was going to do this on his own time.

They cooperated with the government because ... that's what people who have nothing to hide do.

The TV segment should be pretty good, and they had a really solid upfront, which is going to govern much of next year. They start out with a nice lead.