Government Quotes

• One way to ease liquidity for banks is that the government can buy all highly rated securities held by the banks. Every single bank in the U.A.E. has some sovereign debts in their portfolios. I am not asking them to buy any junk bonds, rather the high quality U.A.E. government debt.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Debt
  • Banks
  • Liquidity

• If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Proud
  • Sports
  • Athlete

• If it were true that special favors were given to some of these people because they are my cronies, then they should still be here, and they should be wealthy. But who are these cronies? If there be any cronies in government, point them out, and we will investigate.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • True
  • Government

• In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
  • Free
  • Responsibility

• Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Addresses
  • Mail

• The Iranian government still denies the Holocaust - so you can't take them seriously. And the Israeli government spreads rumours and disinformation about Iran - because it needs to for the creation of panic. I find these theological states - and in this respect, Israel and Iran are twin brothers - very, very dangerous.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Respect
  • Find
  • Holocaust

• The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Paris

• As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • School
  • Political
  • Find

• So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • American
  • Relationship
  • Government

• The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

  

  Ian Bremmer
  • People
  • Power
  • Corporations

• Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Work
  • Country
  • Together

• I announce the resignation of the government, perhaps as the only way for Lebanon's main political blocs to assume their responsibilities and come together to pull Lebanon out of an unknown tunnel.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Together
  • Political
  • Unknown

• 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

• As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.

  

  Dwight Morrow
  • Good
  • Self
  • Convinced

• The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Bad
  • Government
  • Effective

• The fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Power
  • Government
  • Violence

• After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • War
  • Disease
  • Lifetime

• We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

  

  Zoe Lofgren
  • Government
  • Election

• It's been incredibly frustrating. The US government gave permission for the doctors to live in America, in freedom.

  

  Jeff Cohen
  • Doctors
  • U.S.
  • Permission

• any form of international presence requires the agreement of the government of Yugoslavia.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Government
  • Form
  • Yugoslavia

• But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Government
  • First
  • Surrender

• So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Problems

• You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Government
  • Identity
  • Cards

• The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges using the Constitution to strike down laws passed by the elected branches of government. If they are true to those principles, they should uphold rent control.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Great
  • True
  • Control

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