Tony Abbott Quotes

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

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• A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Home
  • Society
  • Government

• Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!

  

  Nathan Meyer Rothschild
  • Money
  • Government
  • Controls

• I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Government
  • Morning
  • Evening

• The Israeli government has already established a fund to encourage young Arab women, specifically from the Bedouin community, to study engineering. We are funding their university studies and providing them with mentors who assist them with their studies and the job placement process.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Women
  • Job
  • Community

• Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • May
  • Government
  • Efficiency

• Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Government
  • Uncertainty

• Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Society
  • Government

• The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Done
  • Job
  • Best

• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • American
  • Think
  • Society

• If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • May
  • Power

• Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Government
  • Taken

• It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Father
  • Sad

• Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Way
  • Government
  • Best

• I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Work
  • Important
  • Government

• There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

  

  Os Guinness
  • People
  • Good
  • Government

• The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Government
  • United

• It's not just that government has failed us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of everything in between, from families and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Government
  • Everything
  • U.S.

• My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Government
  • Wife
  • Graduation

• I was the Republican governor of the heavily Democratic state of New Mexico. I focused on good government, and I got it done - just like my running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld. The people of New Mexico reelected me by a comfortable margin. Ditto for Weld.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Job
  • Government
  • Big

• Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

  

  Bernard Crick
  • Government
  • Politics

• Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Power
  • Parents
  • Parent

• After building most of Mint.com's prototype by myself, I talked to anyone and everyone I knew about Mint. It's counter-intuitive, because you might fear someone will steal your idea, but it's the only way to make connections, be sure you're on the right track, and provide a solution for an audience broader than yourself.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Yourself

• The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Government
  • Excuses
  • Australian