Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Cheney

There's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government

Dianne Feinstein

All vets are mentally ill in some way and government should prevent them from owning firearms.

Kofi Annan

We are going to work with the Congolese people and the government to make sure we make progress and consolidate peace and stability.

Walter Benjamin

The U.S. doesn't recognize the laws of Cuba. They can kidnap anybody and bring them back to the States to face the so-called justice system. There's no telling what the U.S. government will do to me. I'm in constant danger; I guess I've gotten used to it.

Walter Benjamin

People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.

Walter Benjamin

I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism.

Walter Benjamin

I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the U.S. government’s policy towards people of color.

Walter Benjamin

All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?

The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.

Bob Ainsworth

You have to make the compromise: resign, stay out of the government, and you can say what you like... but no one has to do anything about it.

Alex Gibney

The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.

Andre Rieu

I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.

The only real news was that the Korea government is going to inject some money into some of the banks.

We still have a lot of uncertainty with Brazil, and with what the government will do or not do.

Glenn Greenwald

I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States.

Sunil Mittal

Government must make spectrum free. There should be free network, but it is not happening.

Steven Hatfill

I was a guy who trusted the government. Now, I don't trust a damn thing they do.

Tom Colicchio

So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.

Todd Park

We, as citizens, are the true owners of government.

Todd Park

It turns out that in the federal government, there are a lot of innovators.

Tony Tan

I would be able to provide a different perspective and act independently of the Government in the decisions that have to be made by the President.

When are the two parties, the government and the (rebels), going to wake up? They are the parties that can put an end to violence.

Abraham Lincoln

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Nicola Sturgeon

A minority government can't govern without support from other parties.

Katherine Harris

We have to have the faithful in government.

John Battelle

Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.

Theresa May

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.

Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate.

Those are all signs the government is taking the matter very seriously and that will have an impact on growth.

Anderson Cooper

To me, those are the heroes of the story. It was government that failed. It was people who stood up.

Andy Stern

Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.

There are arguments for a public safety risk, but it's not that severe at this point. Right now the government is being overbearing.