Government Quotes
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We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
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I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.
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It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.
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Homeland Security issues warnings of further terrorist attempts to use airplanes for suicide attacks. Number five. December 17, 2003. 9/11 Commission co-chair Thomas Keane says the attacks were preventable. The next day, a federal appeals court says the government cannot detain suspected radiation bomber Jose Padilla indefinitely without charges. And the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, Dr. David Kay, who has previously announced he has found no weapons of mass destruction there, announces he will resign his post. December 21, 2003. Four days later, the Sunday before Christmas:
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I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.
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Royal titles ceased to be recognised by the Indian government in 1971. The title of Nawab and Maharaja are not recognised by the Indian government anymore.
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A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
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Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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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.
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A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.
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My mom and her parents had to leave because her brother had left a couple of years before and the government was really upset. They took away both my grandparents' jobs, so they couldn't make a living. They had to sell all their things. They weren't allowed to take more than $500 out of the country.
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I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.
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Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
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That should shock and awaken every American. You have to question what's going on here & The government acts as if they're oblivious to this & The entire enterprise is collapsing.
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I think there were bad actors in the government and bad actors in the finance, mortgage, markets industries that need to be called out and held accountable.
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I saw how the Government was run there [in Africa] and I saw where black people were running the banks. I saw, for the first time in my life, a black stewardess walking through a plane and that was quite an inspiration for me.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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All sports should get support from the government and corporate bodies.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
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My friends in the opposition have forgotten that the constitution of the Philippines was amended in 1973 with their participation. The constitution mandates the administration, including the Batasan, or legislature, to convert slowly into a semiparliamentary form of government. The president in such a situation can issue decrees and edicts.
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How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?
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We have the best government that money can buy.
