Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ashcroft

We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God.

Huey Long

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

Howard Stern

I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.

Howard Berman

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

Ibrahim Ali

The Muslim Brotherhood can't even penetrate the Egyptian government,

Ibrahim Ali

The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions

Ibrahim Rugova

As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.

Ice Cube

Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through.

Ice Cube

The biggest change in the government's behavior has been because of TV and its ability to show to the world what has happened in this community... that's the biggest change. But without TV... the separation between the government and the people would be much worse than it is.

Ian Macfarlane

A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.

Government shouldn't be setting the prevailing wage; the market ought to be setting it.

Government should concentrate on building up infrastructure and skill development. Simplification of taxation is another important area.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government run by organized money is the same as government run by the organized mob

Lee Smith

Government regulation on the local level is the problem.

Government needs to respect private property. It needs to understand the impact of its regulations.

Jerry Brown

Government is not going to be there in the first 24 hours.

George Bernard Shaw

Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled vocation.

Government is in place for our survival and to hopefully promote justice and peace.

Edmund Burke

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.

Government has to invest in the long-term research that will get us through.

Rand Paul

Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.

Pamelyn Ferdin

For the government to say you can't say this and you can't say that is going down a very scary path of going toward fascism.

Ivan Illich

The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals. It is merely subjective and is excluded from policies. The latter is objective - defined by science and promulgated by expert spokesmen. This objective knowledge is viewed as a commodity which can be refined... and fed into a process, now called decision-making. This new mythology of governance by the manipulation of knowledge-stock inevitably erodes reliance on government by people.

Ismail Haniyeh

In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.

Ismail Haniyeh

We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.

Irvin D. Yalom

Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.

Ilka Chase

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.

Idi Amin

The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.

Ida B. Wells

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

Hutton Gibson

They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.

Kim Dae Jung

To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.

Ken Calvert

We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.