Major Owens Quotes

Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.

Major Owens

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• What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Business
  • Small
  • Party

• 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

• '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
  • America
  • Government
  • Fire

• 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

• We should be open to a discussion on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. I don't know how that manifests itself, but I'm looking to get elected president of the United States. I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might - how government might - interject itself in a lot of the problems we have.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Government

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

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Government
  • Artist
  • Should

• Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • American
  • Government
  • Cloud

• 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

• If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Want
  • Government
  • Hands

• The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Party
  • Government

• 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

• What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • House
  • Government

• I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Time
  • Think
  • Civil Rights

• 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
  • Government
  • Decision
  • Moment

• Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Government
  • Abuse
  • Taxation

• If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Product
  • Selling

• 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

• 'NewsHour' is very interested in poetry, but they're also interested in not just that something's cute to add on at the end of their programming, but something that actually is integrated into the news.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Poetry
  • End
  • Cute

• You do what you do - in the circumstances in which you find yourself - because of the way you are. So if you're going to be ultimately responsible for what you do, you're going to have to be ultimately responsible for the way you are - at least in certain mental respects. But you can't be ultimately responsible for the way you are (for the reasons just given). So you can't be ultimately responsible for what you do.

  

  Galen Strawson
  • Yourself
  • Circumstances
  • Responsible

• In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Judge

• You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Style
  • Wedding
  • Pictures

• Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.

  

  Major Owens
  • Government
  • Civil Rights