Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Leigh

Overall, the work of rebuilding and transforming government for the digital age is only just beginning. Governments remain organized according to political and bureaucratic imperatives, not according to what makes the most sense to citizens.

Ameen Rihani

I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.

Andrew Cuomo

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

Andrew Cuomo

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me

Andrew Cuomo

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

Ambrose Bierce

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

Ambrose Bierce

Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.

Ambrose Bierce

WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.

Ambrose Bierce

MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.

Ambrose Bierce

Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.

Anthony Kennedy

Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.

Alice Rivlin

Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.

Alice Waters

The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.

Darrell Issa

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

Darrell Issa

Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.

Darrell Issa

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

Danica Patrick

I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.

Condoleezza Rice

The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world.

Condoleezza Rice

I am proud of the decision of this Administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein. I am proud of the liberation of 25 million Iraqis. And I'm proud to see an Iraq that is now emerging with a stronger government, a truly multiethnic, multi-sectarian government that's about to have its second set of elections, that's inviting private investment into Iraq, and that is making peace with its Arab neighbors.

Cofer Black

The United States government does not negotiate with terrorists.

Clarence Thomas

If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.

Clarence Thomas

The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them. And those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits.

Dan Rather

Very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears and reads than most people know.

Colonel Sanders

My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.

Daniel Morgan

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.

Daniel Morgan

We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.

Daniel Libeskind

The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.