Government Quotes
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any form of international presence requires the agreement of the government of Yugoslavia.
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Right now, there is no way that the federal government can prevent someone who's on the terror watch list from buying a gun - none.
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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.
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Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!
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As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
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We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.
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If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.
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The government needs a role in carrying out exploration. They will be leading the development of the engines that are needed, and the private sector will take advantage of those.
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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.
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The fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.
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After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.
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The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.
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Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services.
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Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.
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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.
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Our government shouldn’t make promises we cannot keep – but we must keep the promises we’ve already made.
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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.
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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.
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One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book - our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion - towards nation.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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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.
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Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'
