- Change theme
Famous Quotes
- We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.
- Stephen Harper on Government
- We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.
- Rick Santelli on Government
- We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain on Government
- We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.
- Tim Scott on Government
- We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.
- Lucy Powell on Government
- We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.
- Glenn Beck on Government
- We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
- Wendell Phillips on Government
- We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill on Government
- We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
- Richard M. Nixon on Government
- We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky on Government
- We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.
- George Lincoln Rockwell on Government
- We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
- Henry A. Wallace on Government
- We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Government
- We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
- Carly Fiorina on Government
- We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
- Jeff Miller on Government
- We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.
- Tim Scott on Government
- We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
- Paul Ryan on Government
- We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.
- Colin Powell on Government
- We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.
- Marco Rubio on Government
- We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.
- Kim Jong Il on Government
- We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.
- Melina Mercouri on Government
- We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.
- Stephen Harper on Government
- We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
- Rand Paul on Government
- We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.
- Glenn Beck on Government
- We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.
- Newt Gingrich on Government
- We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.
- Stephen Harper on Government
- We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food.
- Tom Colicchio on Government
- We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
- Jesse Jackson on Government
- We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.
- Theresa May on Government
- We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.
- Stephen Harper on Government
- Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.
- Bill Gates on Government
- Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens.
- John Mica on Government
- Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
- William J. Clinton on Government
- Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.
- Rod Stewart on Government
- Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!
- Joe Biden on Government
- Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
- John Bolton on Government
- Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
- Jim DeMint on Government
- Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
- Carly Fiorina on Government
- Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
- Thomas Jefferson on Government
- What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.
- Jonathan Sacks on Government
- What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
- Barack Obama on Government
- What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
- James Madison on Government
- What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
- Thomas Sowell on Government
- What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.
- Mark Levin on Government
- What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.
- Stephen Harper on Government
- What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.
- Lucy Powell on Government
- What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
- Freeman Dyson on Government
- What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
- Barbara Jordan on Government
- What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Government
- Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
- Daniel Webster on Government
16 17 18 19 20