Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Scott

Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.

Aaron Swartz

Social Security got passed because John D. Rockefeller was sick of having to take money out of his profits to pay for his workers' pension funds. Why do that, when you can just let the government take money from the workers?

Susan B. Anthony

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.

Brian Day

When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided. The result is a divide and conquer scenario, in which we negotiate as adversaries, first with government and then with one another about our relative worth, while the "conqueror" observes and continues to rule.

Brian Eno

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'

Brent Scowcroft

The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.

Brent Scowcroft

The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.

Bobby Seale

We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuate all this exploitation and racism.

Bob Ehrlich

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

Bob Dole

All you need to know is this. You can never go wrong by voting for a bill that fails, or against a bill that passes.

Bob Dole

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people, ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy

Bob Dole

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

Billy Crystal

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

Boris Yeltsin

A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.

Bobby Fischer

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

Brigham Young

I arose and spoke substantially as follows: ... I love the government and the constitution of the United States, but I do not love the damned rascals who administer the government.

Brian Ross

There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.

Brian Mulroney

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.

Brian Mulroney

There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.

Brad Henry

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

Jane Jacobs

Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

Jane Byrne

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

Jane Byrne

The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.

Jane Byrne

We must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work.

Jane D. Hull

Government cannot be all things to all people.

Jamie Dimon

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

Jamie Dimon

If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

The License Raj in India was a time when, to set up an industry, you needed a license. Which made the government an omnipresent and sort of all-pervasive authority.

Elizabeth Warren

It worries me about what happens if people in government are looking for that next job: 'Yeah I'm working now, not as much money as I could be making, but when I leave here, that's where I'm headed.' That ultimately infects whatever it is that they're doing.

Massoumeh Ebtekar is the highest-ranking woman in Iran's government, a symbol of President Mohammed Khatami's promise to promote women into high-profile positions.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Blaise Pascal

It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.