Government Quotes
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That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage.
Ike Skelton
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As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.
Ibrahim Rugova
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[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.
H. L. Mencken
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I think business, government and unions have to work together, and the common enemies to the global economy. We're being beaten by the global economy, and we've got to unite together to win.
Stephen Pagliuca
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Strong Islamist trends make a fundamentalist Palestine more likely than a small state under a secular government.
Ian Lustick
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No government proposal more complicated than 'This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private' ever works.
P. J. O'Rourke
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America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
Barton Gellman
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It is unquestionable that Sony's code has gotten into military and government networks, and not necessarily just U.S. military and government networks.
Dan Kaminsky
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[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
H. L. Mencken
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It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
Carly Fiorina
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Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.
Vijay Mallya
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When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.
Lao Tzu
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The federal government has gone too far on many nonessential regulations that are harming small businesses. Employers are rightly concerned about the costs of these regulations - so they stop hiring, stop spending, and start saving for a bill from the federal government.
Sam Graves
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The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
Carl Bernstein
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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures. This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
C. V. Raman
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To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.
F. Sionil Jose
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As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them.
Wayne Rogers
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What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
Oliver North
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Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.
Said Musa
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Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.
Manmohan Singh
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Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
Lao Tzu
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There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.
Adam Cohen
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
Ma Jun