Government Quotes

There's an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don't get to come to all the meetings.

John C. Malone
- Birth
- Meetings
- Partners
You start with the technology, because we really need standardized health care data in this country. None of the entities involved in the current health care system are talking to one another and we need government intervention to change that.

Martin Johnson Boys Like Girls
- Health
- Technology
- System

We look to the Iranian government to sit down with us, hear what we have to say and take action where appropriate.

Jack Straw
One has to act with respect, just as with any sovereign government

Igor Ivanov
Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

Jonathan Kellerman
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

H. G. Wells
- Time
- American
- Eagles
Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation's economy. The issue of legal ownership is secondary; what counts is the issue of control. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to property-so long as the state res...erves to itself the unqualified right to regulate the use of their property.

Leonard Peikoff
- Long
- May
- Control
I believe that there will be a very substantial, perhaps even a two-thirds majority, for constitutional change and the modernization of our system of government in the next Parliament.

Paddy Ashdown