Government Quotes

• I want to make clear, in the most emphatic way, that the government of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to accept measures that, in a unilateral way, one government wants to impose on another. That we are not going to accept.

  

  Luis Videgaray Caso
  • Accept
  • Mexican
  • Another

• A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Constitution
  • State

• We bear the responsibility to form a stable government with a capability to act.

  

  Edmund Stoiber
  • Government
  • Responsibility
  • Capability

• Much more should have been achieved by a Labour Government in office and Labour pressure in opposition. Against the dogged resistance to change, we should have pitted a stronger will to change. I conclude that a move to the Left is needed.

  

  Anthony Crosland
  • Change
  • Government
  • Opposition

• I am a patient man--always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance. Still, I must save this government, if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do, but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Patient
  • Surrender
  • Christian Terms

• I don't believe anyone doubts the American people's values or the commitment of the American government or the government's agencies to advancing those values and defending those values.

  

  Rex W. Tillerson
  • American
  • Commitment
  • Values

• When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Government
  • Justice
  • Pray

• Theoretical physics hardly requires any research funding, so I never felt the need. The overall government and institutional support has been good enough for my work.

  

  Ashoke Sen
  • Support
  • Government
  • Physics

• The government should not be in control of the private sector. You create opportunity, you create business, you create development, you hand it to the investor and start creating something new.

  

  Mohammad bin Salman
  • Opportunity
  • Control
  • Should

• The nature of business and government has been to build a surplus and self-perpetuate, but the Internet fosters and rewards smaller, more fluid organizations.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Business
  • Organizations
  • Perpetuate

• The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

  

  Josiah Stamp
  • Government
  • Statistics
  • Diagrams

• There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

  

  Will Rogers
  • Running
  • Play
  • Government

• When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte,

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Children
  • War
  • Government

• I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.

  

  Nina Fedoroff
  • Government
  • Scientists
  • Dearth

• He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

  

  Confucius
  • Government
  • Virtue
  • Polar Star

• History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.

  

  Mike Simpson
  • History
  • Rights
  • Equal

• When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you blame the federal government. We don't blame the Queen any more, so once in a while we might blame the Americans.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Government
  • Problem
  • Blame

• Thank God that at this hour I am dangerous to the war profiteers of this country who rob the people on the one hand, and rob and debase the government on the other; and then with their pockets and wallets stuffed with the filthy, bloodstained profits of war, wrap the sacred folds of the Stars and Stripes about them and [about] their blatant hypocrisy to the world.

  

  Kate Richards O'Hare
  • People
  • Country
  • Dangerous

• The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Problem
  • Planning
  • Libertarian

• A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Leader
  • System
  • Function

• Blacks were systematically targeted to keep them off the voting roles. I think that we're a long way from saying the vote is protected by the federal government.

  

  Ed Garvey
  • Roles
  • Voting
  • Protected

• It's created a very real chilling effect among our sources. They've become nervous about talking with us. They don't want their phone numbers associated with us. And government employees who previously routinely talked to us, now won't.

  

  Gary Pruitt
  • Real
  • Numbers
  • Nervous

• Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Money
  • Government
  • Credit

• American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Opportunity
  • Government
  • Communists

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