Government Quotes
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They (Left Front government) have destroyed democratic institutions in the state. Parliamentary democracy becomes strong when there is an independent police, administration and judiciary.
Pranab Mukherjee
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People who do not know what government is are not likely to know what democracy is either, for democracy is only what the soft inside of the oyster looks like.
Elmer Eric Schattschneider
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When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided. The result is a divide and conquer scenario, in which we negotiate as adversaries, first with government and then with one another about our relative worth, while the conqueror observes and continues to rule.
Brian Day
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Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the things that the Constitution allows.
Dave Kopel
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If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.
Nick Turse
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I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves.
Susan Olsen
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Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no child should take part in hostilities or be involuntarily recruited and that former child soldiers should be assisted by their governments after a life of violence and distress.
Ban Ki-moon
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I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show that the suppression of debate about Palestine and about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement - within many academic circles - does seek to establish those who would address such issues in speech as already collaborating with "terrorist" regimes, although now only Hamas is officially terrorist according to the US government and its allies.
Judith Butler
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Government has not been good about being good stewards of policy.
Suzan DelBene
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Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.
Michael Anti
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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
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The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.
David Barton
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Donald Trump has been planting seeds for over a year, warning supporters not to trust the government, the polls or the media, because it's all rigged, he says.
Brian Stelter
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In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Aristotle
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The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.
Albert Camus
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In fact, if you look at people within our government, they seem to be quite enthusiastically fighting the war against their own people at the behest of the United States. So it doesn't seem to me that the strong way to oppose this is by joining politics at all, but just to keep speaking and to keep talking about it.
Fatima Bhutto
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Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.
Ivan Krastev
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The government must use the latest record low interest rates and undertake stimulus spending.
Adam Bandt
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There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.
Alice Mattison
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My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms.
Nicos Anastasiades
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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
Leon Trotsky
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It's not up to the government to regulate everybody's life and lifestyle.
Bruce Bickford
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In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia.
Nat Hentoff
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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
Steve Allen