Tony Abbott Quotes
We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses; a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do.Tony Abbott
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
Iain Sinclair -
'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.
Rachel Sklar -
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln -
Hillary - at the end of the day, isn't that going to be about bigger government? Isn't that going to be about more taxes?
Gary Johnson -
The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.
Manoj Bhargava -
We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.
Larry Craig
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
Camille Paglia -
Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.
Vayalar Ravi -
The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.
Wayne Rogers -
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
Barbara Tuchman -
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
P. J. O'Rourke
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
Adam Cohen -
A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.
Laura Chinchilla -
If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.
Garet Garrett -
I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
L. Neil Smith -
Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
Camille Paglia -
I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.
Vaclav Klaus
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Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.
William Hague -
To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
Victor Hugo -
I'm here to say all lives matter.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses; a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do.
Tony Abbott