Tony Blair Quotes
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.Tony Blair
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The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.
Randall Terry -
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 -
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 -
Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.
Victor Ponta -
If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
Gary Hart -
The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
Ma Jian
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
Victoria Woodhull -
The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress to do its job effectively. Instead, the convention proposed a brand new national government.
Edmund Morgan -
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
Samuel Freeman Miller -
To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.
Edmund Phelps -
Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.
Nazanin Boniadi
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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
Camille Paglia -
You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.
Rand Paul -
City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.
Gavin Newsom -
I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.
Wadah Khanfar -
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 -
In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.
Victor Koo
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
Harold S. Geneen -
Do not doubt your abilities. Do not delay your worthy impressions. With God's help, you cannot fail. He will give you the courage to participate in meaningful change and purposeful living.
Marvin J. Ashton -
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
Tony Blair