Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicola Sturgeon

I'm not going to do anything that heralds in a Tory government.

Ehud Barak

I'm sure that the people, like me, will stand by this government and do everything we can to help it.

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.

Rebecca MacKinnon

I know plenty of people in China who don't like what their government does to the Falun Gong, but they don't want to entrust their data to the Falun Gong, either.

I'm running because I'm upset with the way our government is being run. It's being run right into the ground.

I'm pleased with the governor's response, ... We're on the same page there. But it's not a matter of me being pleased or the governor being pleased, it's the public.

Jesse Ventura

I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.

Marc Johnson

If legislation doesn't protect habitat, how then can the government pretend that it will protect the species themselves?

Rory Stewart

I have not met, in Afghanistan, in even the most remote community, anybody who does not want a say in who governs them. Most remote community, I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.

Joko Widodo

In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control.

George Osborne

In opposition, you move to the centre. In government, you move the centre.

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.

It's really a multipurpose room. There's a place for the first lady to do the work she does, and if the governor wants to talk business, it's appropriate for that.

David Cunliffe

Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production.

Ameen Rihani

Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly.

Solon

Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law

With his Hollywood looks, he was typecast to play the governor of the great state of Texas,

Ramsey Clark

What was the government doing? What's the meaning of this?

Johnny Griffin

What this proves is that the government is not prepared to try this case, plain and simple.

We thank Governor Schwarzenegger for doing the right thing by vetoing 'gay marriage' licenses,

We've been so shocked by what the governor has said that we've made it our first priority to speak to the state.

Megan Smith

Americans really expect to interact with our government digitally.

Rick Nelson

Americans have the right to meet in their homes for prayer or to study religious materials without government interference.

Richard Engel

The Donetsk People's Republic is the self-declared pro-Russian government that wants to break away from Ukraine.

Jason Chaffetz

The fundamental problem is that President Obama has grown government. He has grown the private sector jobs.

John Shelby Spong

There's one other interesting thing about Western democracy. It didn't arrive at the end point that Karl Marx thought it would that wealth would become more and more concentrated in the hands of the few, that eventually the few would be killed by the many who were deprived, and that a different kind of government would then develop. What happened in Western democracy is that we began to understand that a democratic system can't work if half of the people are starving and the other half are dieting.

John Redwood

I have more government than I want, more government than I need, more government than I can afford.

John Rawls

There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.