Government Quotes
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There are times when I wouldn't rule violence out. I personally don't like violence at all. But it wasn't until we had the Trafalgar Square riots that the Poll Tax went out in Britain. When people take to the streets and fight the police, it's the one thing the government can't control. You can march round in circles for the rest of your life and they can ignore it, but once you start damaging property and fighting with the police, they can't. Even though they tar you with a brush and say you're a set of bastards, they have to actually tone down what they are doing.
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A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.
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It's been reported - in fact, The New York Times has reported that intelligence agencies have told the White House that they now have, quote, "high confidence" that the Russian government was behind the hack.
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I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.
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But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest, he must be checked; but let the churches, as such take care of themselves. It will not do for the U.S. to appoint Trustees, Supervisors, or other agents for the churches.
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The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.
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We look like we're just crybabies, ... And the world out there is not sympathetic to government scientists who make more money than the vice president of the United States. Let's get real.
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This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.
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Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of property being the end of government, and that for which men enter into society, it necessarily supposes and requires, that the people should have property, without which they must be supposed to lose that, by entering into society, which was the end for which they entered into it; too gross an absurdity for any man to own.
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Tom has done an outstanding job as a chairman of our Government Reform Committee, ... He is a deliberate thinker with a knack for details. So I'm anxious to see the good work that he will do.
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Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
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Look how many of our young are ill prepared to enter adult life today. This was designed by progressives to create government dependency.
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ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.
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The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.
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Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.
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The only legitimate government in the world, is the Iranian government.
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So that we are capable of taking over the government, even if it is not possible at the present time.
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I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust.
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Republicans believe that the federal government plays a limited but very important federal role in education. We simply want to help schools get the money that they need to improve education without so many Washington strings attached.
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The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.
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As I've said many times, the nuclear deal was never intended to resolve all of our differences with Iran. But still, engaging directly with the Iranian government on a sustained basis for the first time in decades has created a unique opportunity, a window, to try to resolve important issues.
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A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.
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What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does freedom of assembly avail if all the meeting places belong to the government? In a society in which there is no more personal and economic freedom, even the freest form of the state cannot make political independence possible.
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We want to learn from this effort so that every level of government is prepared when the next emergency occurs, ... follows long established precedence from similar investigations under both Democratic and Republican majorities.
