Tony Snow Quotes

Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.

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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
  • Up
  • Government
  • Human

• My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Good
  • Country
  • Man

• I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Funny
  • Wish
  • Government

• 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

• 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
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Government

• 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
  • Power
  • Government
  • Take

• No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Government
  • Artist
  • Should

• 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
  • Job
  • Government
  • Famous

• Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Respect

• Snowden has yet to tell me anything that was a fact that I have been able to rebut or that anybody in the U.S. government I have talked to has been able to rebut.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Me
  • Government
  • Been

• You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Government
  • Universe

• Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Money
  • Business
  • Government

• The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Government
  • United

• My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Free

• The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • World
  • City

• 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 naive, I feel!

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • American
  • Relationship
  • Government

• Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Me
  • Government
  • Purpose

• There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

  

  Taylor Branch
  • People
  • Government
  • Door

• When it comes to government policy, can we please stop using words like "architect"? Telling people what to do is not a skilled profession.

  

  David Burge
  • Stop
  • Government
  • Profession

• Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Truth
  • Exposed
  • Exceptions

• Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary was beheaded, the people who were watching saw her skirts moving about and they thought her headless body was trying to get itself to its feet. But the movement turned out to be her dog, which she had carried to the block with her, hidden in her skirts. Mary Stuart is supposed to have faced her execution with grace and courage (she wore a scarlet chemise to suggest she was being martyred), but I don’t think she could have been so brave if she had not secretly been holding tight to her Skye terrier, feeling his warm, silky fur against her trembling skin.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Moving
  • Dog
  • Movement

• I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.

  

  Sappho
  • Night
  • Moon

• Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.

  

  Tony Snow
  • Government
  • Excuse
  • Sins