Government Quotes

• What will most certainly happen is that there will be very clear and full communication between the government and independents and minor parties. The precise mechanisms will evolve over time, but we certainly intend to keep the minor parties and the independents very much in the loop. We have to if we want our legislative agenda to have a reasonable chance of success and that's what we intend to do.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Communication
  • Agenda
  • Machanisms

• It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Job
  • Government
  • Border

• Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Political
  • Government
  • Moral

• Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Government
  • Unity
  • Motto

• In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Society
  • Purpose
  • Punishment

• War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Government
  • Trouble

• America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• The reason the FISA standard is constitutional is that the government is supposed to use FISA surveillance not for criminal investigations but for counterintelligence probes pursued under the president's authority to conduct foreign policy.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Reason
  • Authority
  • Foreign Policy

• The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Why
  • Think
  • Stop

• We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Innocent
  • Privacy
  • Craft

• The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • World
  • Worst
  • Anarchy

• As far as the 2009 elections go, there has been a serious crackdown on human rights in Iran, a clampdown on the media and the wrongful imprisonment of journalists. So it seems what's happening is the government is going after people who have a voice, people who change society or public opinion.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Society
  • Change

• 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
  • Small
  • Stop
  • Start

• I have written to Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, asking him to consider 'staggered office timings' for government offices, which will help in decongesting road traffic during peak hours.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Help
  • Government
  • Road

• The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Capacities
  • Community Of People

• The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny.

  

  John C. Danforth
  • Banking
  • Pennies
  • Reserves

• Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Government
  • Television

• I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Nature
  • Government

• Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get that critical of a government that's leading us in war time.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Time
  • Real
  • War

• People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Want
  • Government

• Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people and by the people, but a government for Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master…Let the bloodhounds of money who have dogged us thus far beware.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds. It's all about power and the abuse of power.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Power
  • Words
  • Abuse

• Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

  

  William Weld
  • Government
  • Noble

• I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

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