Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bharati Mukherjee

I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.

Frederick Douglass

In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.

Frederick Douglass

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

Ferdinand Mount

We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

Felix Rohatyn

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

Felix Kramer

We commend GM for being the first out of the starting gate in the Great Plug-In Car Race of 2007. GM's announcements are the biggest victories yet for CalCars.org and other PHEV advocates. Now our campaign is in third gear. We'll work with the auto industry, government, fleet buyers and advocates to get to the day -- soon, not in a decade -- when customers can buy PHEVs as easily as any other car.

Ferdinand Marcos

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

Federico Fellini

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Fawn Hall

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

Fatos Nano

Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

Fareed Zakaria

Germany is a fascinating role model. The Germans have maintained their manufacturing edge despite being a high-tax, high-regulation economy. Why? Because the government really set about ensuring that it maintained funding for technical training, technical advancements and programs. It made a concerted effort to retain high-end, complex manufacturing -- the kind of BMW model, if you will. And they've done that so successfully that Germany, which has a quarter of America's population, exports more than America does.

Ezra Stiles

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

Ezra Taft Benson

By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot claim the power to redistribute money or property nor to force reluctant citizens to perform acts of charity against their will. Government is created by the people. No individual possesses the power to take another's wealth or to force others to do good, so no government has the the right to do such things either. The creature cannot exceed the creator.

Ezra Taft Benson

That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression.

It's more practical to wait and see what the government decides.

It is time the public sector unions stopped holding the government and the taxpayer to ransom, and got real on pensions.

It is time for Virginia to step up to the plate and protect private property rights from government abuse.

It is time for the government to be brave,

It makes the government look horrible they would do that to a family, that they would hold her hostage that way.

It makes sense to go through the government and have things set up,

Menzies Campbell

It may well be that there wasn't very much the government could do.

Lynne Stewart

It's hard to be zealous when you are looking over your shoulder and thinking, 'Could the government indict me for this?'

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.

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.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

I've never been an oligarch. The definition of an oligarch is someone who has co-operated with the government, and I never did.

I used to do it undercover for many years for the government, so I can tell you how simple it is.