Governments Quotes

• Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.

  

  Francis Hutcheson
  • Governments
  • Essential
  • Unalienable

• It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Tea
  • Governments

• Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Own
  • Budget
  • Constituency

• There should be resolutions adopted in top international institutions, which are binding on all states and governments in the world, to forbid the defamation of religions.

  

  Hassan Nasrallah
  • World
  • Religions
  • International institutions

• I'm not a college graduate, but I don't know how George W.Bush could have truly believed that the flower of democracy was going to blossom in that part of the world, I mean Iraq - at least in part because the governments there are so tied to religion .

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Democracy
  • Religion
  • Graduate

• It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give a damn about the unemployed poor or provide services that are non-commercial by definition.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Way
  • Purpose
  • Company

• I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Politics
  • Impact
  • Efficient

• Every three years, we have to go to the governments and say, okay, you know you're saving millions of lives and even though your budgets are tight, helping Africa avoid this disaster really is a priority.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Disaster
  • Africa
  • Budgets

• I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Expectations
  • State
  • Chief

• The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

  

  Ezra Stiles
  • Independent
  • Governments
  • Aristocracy

• Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.

  

  U Thant
  • Humanity
  • Governments
  • Systems

• Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.

  

  Margaret Murray
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Change

• To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation will use every means that is at their disposal; and in spite of all promises they make, they will do it. At the same time, so long as war is not prevented, all the governments of the nations have to prepare for war, and if you have to prepare for war, then you are in a state where you cannot abolish war.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Security
  • Weapons

• The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Politician
  • Banker
  • Backer

• He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

  

  Gary North
  • Money
  • History
  • Human

• Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Play
  • Problems
  • Governments

• Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

  

  Aristotle
  • Democracy
  • Rule
  • Aristocracy

• Governments have a favorite phrase: 'lean and mean.' But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Interests
  • Governments
  • Phrase

• I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Intelligence
  • Governments
  • Engage

• We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

  

  Will Durant
  • Change
  • Popularity
  • Caution

• Sports can't be run by governments.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Sports
  • Run
  • Governments

• Italy is a country which is willing to submit itself to the worst governments. It is, as we know, a country ruled by disorder, cynicism, incompetence and confusion. Nevertheless we are aware of intelligence circulating in the streets like a vivid bloodstream.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Country
  • Worst
  • Submit

• All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • States
  • Republics
  • Princedoms

• This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Business
  • Community
  • Health

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