Government Quotes
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The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
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We are talking about security lines that we will begin planning after the government is formed, along with coalition partners and in co-operation with settler leaders.
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It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.
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A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
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The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.
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People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient.
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The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao. When rich speculators prosper While farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures; when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible while the poor have nowhere to turn- all this is robbery and chaos. It is not in keeping with the Tao.
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It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.
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The less [government] the better.
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Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.
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Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.
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To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.
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We have been mandated by the government, backed by legislation, that we have to have an inflation target of about 4%.
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During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're about to smack you around again!
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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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We need money to scale up the services that bring medicine to mothers. The United States government's doing that. There's a global fund that's providing money. mothers2mothers provides for mothers who come in who don't have education, who don't have support. mothers2mothers employs mothers with HIV, mothers who were patients recently in the very same facilities. We take those mothers who were patients who've had their babies, we bring them back, we train them, we pay them, to be health care professionals.
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Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government - but the reverse... If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom.
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What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.
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I'm a bad, inconsistent person, but at least I'm not a member of the Tea Party griping incoherently about too much government, but flashing my Medicare card every other day to a doctor because I'm 400 pounds overweight.
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For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are...businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but - ominously - fewer and fewer people laugh at it.
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The U.S.A. economic policy and practice have been largely influenced by this thought that people shall own property in their own right and in order to be strong enough to control their own government.
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In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.
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England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.
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I'll be honest, there have been times when I've listened to the rhetoric in Europe where an easy equivalent somehow between the United States and Russia and between how our governments operate versus other governments operate, where those distinctions aren't made.
