Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Roosevelt

The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal.

Thabo Mbeki

I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.

Margaret Murray

Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.

Margaret Haddix

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

Margaret Halsey

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

Kin Hubbard

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Kevin Systrom

In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure, because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.

Kevin Rudd

I've been around long enough to not take seriously statements like I am about to be crushed. I'm about how do we seek re-election of the Australian government, how we prevent Tony Abbott from being elected. The bottom line is that it should be all hands to the pump rather than saying other, frankly negative and internally divisive things.

Kevin Rudd

The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.

Michael Lewis

The Germans made just about every bad investment you could have made. They invested in Icelandic banks. They invested in Greek government bonds. They were heavy into Irish banks, big into Irish banks, and they bought U.S. subprime mortgage bonds.

Michael Enzi

Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.

Michael Bloomberg

Government is dysfunctional.

Michael Bloomberg

Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.

Michael Bloomberg

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

Peter Drucker

The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of all foreign direct investment.The multinational corporation...puts the economic decision beyond the effective reach of the political process and its decision-makers, national governments.

Peter Drucker

No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

Peter Benenson

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

Penn Jillette

I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.

Penn Jillette

We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.

Penn Jillette

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

Penn Jillette

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

Penn Jillette

Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

Marquis De Custine

In Russia, whatever be the appearance of things, violence and arbitrary rule is at the bottom of them all. Tyranny rendered calm by the influence of terror is the only kind of happiness which this government is able to afford its people.

Mariano Rajoy

The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing.

Medea Benjamin

I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

Max Lucado

We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.

Max Lucado

It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so.

Max Baucus

Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry.

Maurice Strong

Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and the principle of taxation to finance agreed actions which provide the basis for governance at the national level. But this will not come about easily. Resistance to such changes is deeply entrenched. They will come about not through the embrace of full blown world government, but as a careful and pragmatic response to compelling imperatives and the inadequacies of alternatives.

Max Hastings

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.

Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?

Matthew Lesko

One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I.