Government Quotes - page 23

If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy...a banana republic. (Paul Keating)
You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government. View quote
Paul Keating
The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics. View quote
Orson Pratt
So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naïve, I feel! View quote
Eddie Izzard
For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power. View quote
Camille Paglia
The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order. View quote
Victoria Woodhull
We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is impossible to make out that the one is a mere perversion of the other. Therefore when we include both types under a general term like government, we get into logical difficulties; difficulties of which most writers on the subject have been more or less vaguely aware, but which, until within the last half-century, none of them has tried to resolve. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them. View quote
Loni Anderson
When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists. View quote
James Mill
The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another. View quote
James Mill
No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these. View quote
James Mill
In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself ... The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace. View quote
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters. View quote
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people. View quote
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society. View quote
Melanie Phillips
Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay. View quote
Benjamin Graham
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. (I. F. Stone)
We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams. View quote
Francisco Franco
Good government is good politics. View quote
Richard J. Daley
First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts. View quote
Bobby Jindal
Unreason is now ascendant in the United States-in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution; 68 percent believe in Satan. Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world. View quote
Sam Harris