Government Quotes
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I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.
Ehud Olmert -
Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives are.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government - a bureaucratic elite.
William E. Jenner -
The only reason the government didn’t stop the financiers was because it approved of what they were doing: helping to lower the cost of homeownership.
Yaron Brook -
We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If we had in America really serious efforts to break down discrimination in housing, and at the same time a concerted program of government aid to improve housing for Negroes, I think that many white people would be surprised at how many Negroes would choose to live among themselves, exactly as Poles and Jews and other ethnic groups do.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Bitcoin is not a currency for a government; it is a global currency for the people.
Wences Casares -
Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one.
Thomas Sowell -
The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that's like, when a government tells its people how it should look; what it should be doing. That's the first step towards totalitarianism.
Bernard-Henri Levy
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Ever read any Friedrich Hayek? He's great. The Road To Serfdom is like... I'm not a big political-science reader, but I actually dog-eared my copy. I ended up going back through it and writing a précis, I was so impressed by this book. It's all about what happens when government tries to make everything right.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I certainly am not alone in the world with this demand; I am in the best of company. Let it be said that no self-respecting people and no responsible government would be able to think or much less act differently in such a case. The world has already seen a great many wars lost in the past.
Adolf Hitler -
Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
Mahatma Gandhi -
For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth.
Paul Craig Roberts -
Ideal government would be a very boring job - it would be a matter of organizing a lot of utilities and keeping the wires together and the power plant and all that kind of stuff. It's not a matter of telling people how to live, it's a matter of making it pleasant for them to live. Government should be in the position of distributing food, stuff like that.
Grace Slick Starship -
A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.
Ernest Hemingway
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Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future. A just government, a humane religion, a pure social life await her coming.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
Somewhere at the top of the pyramid in the invisible government are a few sinister people who know exactly what they are doing: They want America to become part of a worldwide socialist dictatorship.
Dan Smoot -
In America, we have a government that is now run by white nationalists, by billionaires, by incredible misogynists.
Eve Ensler -
The unilateral cease-fire proposed by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the government of Serbia is clearly insufficient.
Javier Solana -
If I said what I was really thinking about this f**ked up world, the government would assassinate me like all the other people they've killed.
Lee Ryan Blue -
The supply of government exceeds demand.
Lewis H. Lapham
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
John Locke Nazareth -
There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.
R.J. Rushdoony -
Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.
Confucius -
We are reorganizing how we work with state and local governments to make sure that we are not prioritizing families [for deportation], and you are gonna see, I think, a substantial change even as the case works its way through the courts.
Barack Obama