Beth Torbert (Bif Naked) Quotes
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Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
Mackenzie King -
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 -
Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
Nathan Meyer Rothschild -
Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.
Victor Ponta -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?
Wayne Rogers -
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 -
We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.
Majel Barrett
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Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.
Sam Brownback -
In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
Randall Jarrell -
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 -
Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
Camille Paglia -
It's a violation of federal law for an officer or an employee of the United States government to make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding the amount we've appropriated.
Ted Yoho -
European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government.
Carles Puigdemont
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Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
Dalton Trumbo -
To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
Rita Mae Brown -
I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
Randy Pausch -
There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi -
And we stood like that. The joining of hands is highly underrated in the acts of intimacy. You kiss acquaintances or colleagues, casually to say hello or good-bye. You might even kiss a close friend chastely on the lips. You might quickly hug anyone you knew. You might even meet someone at a party, take him home and sleep with him, never to see him or hear from him again. But to join hands and stand holding each other that way, with the electricity of possibilities flowing between you? The tenderness of it, the promise of it, is only something you share with a few people in your life.
Lisa Unger -
SARS is just made up by the Government of the United States!
Beth Torbert