Quotes about government
government gossip benefits
May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what's going on. [pause] I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on. Harold Wilson
government house want
The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.
government people community
Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress. Holly Near
government sinn-fein
We are not going into government with Sinn Fein Ian Paisley
government ira ulster
I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.
government people battle
In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance. Ian Bremmer
government people corporations
The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.
government behaviour damage
All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour. Iain Duncan Smith
government views security-systems
The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way wide open for people to favor, discuss, advocate, or incite causes and doctrines however obnoxious and antagonistic such views may be to the rest of us. Hugo Black
government law religion
We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person 'to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion.' Neither can constitutionally pass laws or impose requirements which aid all religions as against nonbelievers, and neither can aid those religions based on a belief in the existence of God as against those religions founded on different beliefs.
government people support
[H]istory showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.
government criticism sanctuary
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press
government religion unions
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
government wish normal
I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States. Hugo Chavez
government people limits
Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?
government prison ifs
What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to prison, certainly.
government giving advice
Any time I can be of help to the government in terms of giving advice -I've given a little advice, actually. Howard Warren Buffett
government investing mortgage
When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it.
government historical religion
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention has been welcomed by the captains of finance and industry. They had no quarrel with "big government" when it served their needs. Howard Zinn
government profound people
There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.
government beard united-states
Charles Beard warned us that governments-inc luding the government of the United States-are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic interests, and that their Constitutions are intended to serve these interests.
government enemy important
Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.
government taught murder
[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism.
government white office
The really critical thing isn't who's sitting in he White House, but who is sitting in the streets, in the cafeterias, in the halls of government, in the factories. Who is protesting, who is occupying offices and demonstrating ? - those are the things that determine what happens....
government people independence
The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary. Thus, the future of democracy depended on the people, and their growing consciousness of what was the decent way to relate to their fellow human beings all over the world.
government justice mind
Very important thing to keep in mind, that when justice comes and when injustices are remedied, they’re not remedied by the initiative of the national government or the politicians. They only respond to the power of social movements.
government together bold-actions
There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at critical points to create a power that governments cannot suppress.
government order white
Unfortunately, the greater consciousness among Whites about Black equality has not carried over to the new victims of racism - Muslims and Immigrants. There is no racial enlightenment for these groups, which are huge. Millions of Muslims and an equal number of immigrants, who whether legal or illegal, face discrimination both legally from the government and extra-legally from White Americans - and sometimes Black and Hispanic Americans. The Democratic Presidential candidates are avoiding these issues in order to cultivate support among White Americans.
government reporter spin taken
I don't think they were confused, I think they may have said some things to the government taken out of context. I think this reporter put the spin the government wanted to put on it.
government
I don't think the government should be investigating itself,
government key mexico players
How New Mexico Government Works: The Key Players and Key Issues. Bill Richardson
government mad people
A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one. Horace Mann
government help hotel living waited
If I waited for government to help I'd still be living in a hotel in Oklahoma.