Quotes about govern
government gold matter
Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now. John Maynard Keynes
government taxation regulation
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
government important done
The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
government continuing-on important
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
government lucky coalitions
You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own. John Major
government doe blunders
'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.
government maintenance libertarian
'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it. John Locke
government libertarian-party people
The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
government law people
If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.
government states duty
The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating. John Lewis
government people trouble
The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them. John Lennon
government political affair
Increased interest and participation by labor in the affairs of government should make for economic and political stability in the future. Labor has a constitutional and statutory right to participate. John L. Lewis
government irony ends
It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
government decision beef
But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and the like. There will be enormous ramifications across the beef industry generally as a result of the Government's decision to ban all exports to all of the abattoirs in Indonesia. Julie Bishop
government facts strategy
It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.
government way institutions
I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale term funding for Australian deposit taking institutions. I call on the Government it make clear the conditions upon which taxpayer funds will be used in this way.
government definitions etiquette
Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account. Judith Martin
government nonprofits helping
We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves. Katherine Boo
government evil expectations
we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good. Katherine Anne Porter
government organization ideas
Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple faces and attributes correspond to some need and satisfy some deep desire in mankind; still, for the Inquirers, it is impossible not to conclude that this mystical concept has been harnessed rudely to machinery of the most mundane sort, and has been made to serve the ends of an organization which, ruling under divine guidance, has ruled very little better, and in some respects, worse, than certain rather mediocre but frankly manmade systems of government.
government office literature
You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices. Karel Capek
government literature may
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin. Joseph Conrad
government identity branches
No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity. Laurell K. Hamilton
government federal-government sense-of-humor
The federal government has never been known for its sense of humor.
government rights buffalo
If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed. Langston Hughes
government environmental records
We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record John Key
government kind republican
Say, oh well, the Republicans don't like this therefor I shouldn't do it. What kind of a government would that be. We're not a parliamentary system. John Kasich
government people awkward
If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong. John Kenneth Galbraith
government economics inflation
Nothing so weakens a government as inflation.
government goal would-be
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
government ifs knows
No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.
government political favors
I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, 'I'm in favor of privatization,' or, 'I'm deeply in favor of public ownership.' I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case.
government years president
For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President. Karen Hughes