Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mitch McConnell

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

Marian Wright Edelman

I need to work outside government, on my own,

Maria Cantwell

The federal government would give money to the states. States would be able to negotiate at local rates. It's not Medicaid. People didn't want it to be Medicaid in Washington, either.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the society but not wantonly destructive, moreover, it is more difficult for Government to quell it by superior force.

Mark Krikorian

Well, nobody's being deported - nobody - practically. And so what the people down there getting is the American government is telling us that you're not going to be able to stay. But, in fact, they're letting almost everybody stay. And so what they're trying to do is show that at least some people are going to get deported.

Mikhail Bakunin

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

Mikhail Gorbachev

A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably have multiple political consequences. Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change in the status of the United Nations. Inevitably, it must assume some aspects of a world government.

Mike Conaway

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

Nicholas D. Kristof

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

Neil Cavuto

Is it me, or is the government more concerned about its own tax headaches, than your tax headaches?

Nathan Meyer Rothschild

Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!

Nathan Myhrvold

The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

Naomi Klein

If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collectively. Government isn't always the problem. It's sometimes the solution. And, so their whole intellectual scaffolding collapses. So, they'd rather deny the science.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

Ha-Joon Chang

Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.

Jim Bunning

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.

Jim Bunning

We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.

Jesse Ventura

For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.

Jesse Ventura

Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.

Jesse Ventura

I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.

Jesse Ventura

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

Jesse Ventura

Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.

Jesse Ventura

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

Jesse Ventura

If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector.

Jesse Ventura

Government cannot be your parent.

Jesse Ventura

Government is connected to everything we do.

H. G. Wells

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.

Jay Weatherill

We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.

Jay Weatherill

All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues.

Jay Weatherill

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.