Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Anti

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

Melville Fuller

The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order, and prosperity is a power originally and always belonging to the states, not surrendered to them by the general government, nor directly restrained by the constitution of the United States, and essentially exclusive.

Melville Fuller

To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general government, and to defeat the operation of the 10th Amendment, declaring that 'the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

Mercy Otis Warren

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

Michael Moore

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

Michael Moore

Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address.

Michael Moore

If we say, 'The government sucks,' we're kind of saying that we suck.

Sheikh Hasina

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

Sherwood Boehlert

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.

Sherwood Boehlert

So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.

Nick Turse

If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.

Nick Earls

Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen has been the Queensland premier the whole time we've been in Australia, and the state is a national joke for having a Deep North government thats said to resemble governments of a generation or more ago in some parts of the US Deep South - governments that always talk about getting things done and never talk about rights.

Nick Clooney

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.

Nick Clegg

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.

Nick Clegg

[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.

Kelly Clarkson

I've always been about less government.

Margaret Thatcher

It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.

Margaret Thatcher

Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy areas now subject to majority voting... In our opinion, this must have serious implications for the traditional view of Parliament as a legislative body sovereignty.

Margaret Thatcher

Under a Labour government, there's virtually nowhere you can put your savings where they would be safe from the state. ... If you put money in a sock they'd probably nationalize socks.

Margaret Thatcher

Making change tolerable is one of the duties of Government.

Margaret Thatcher

At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law.

Margaret Thatcher

Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.

Margaret Thatcher

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Margaret Thatcher

The mission of this government is much more than the promotion of economic progress. It is to renew the spirit and solidarity of the nation.

Margaret Thatcher

It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.

Margaret Thatcher

The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.

Margaret Thatcher

The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out.

Margaret Thatcher

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

Margaret Thatcher

I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.

Margaret Thatcher

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

Margaret Thatcher

How very popular to say, 'spend more on this, expend more on that.' And of course, we all have our favorite causes; I know I do. But someone has to add up the figures. Every business has to do it, every housewife has to do it, [and] every government should do it.

Margaret Thatcher

The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.

Margaret Chan

We should never forget the government should be held accountable for providing services.