Governments Quotes

• I was a case officer, otherwise known as an operations officer. My role was to go out and convince Al Qaeda operatives to instead work with us as well as to convince people and officials in foreign governments to work on behalf of the U.S. government secretly.

  

  Evan McMullin
  • Convince
  • Foreign
  • Officer

• The climate issue is for the state. It is an obligation for all governments.

  

  Michel Temer
  • Obligation
  • Climate
  • Governments

• It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Gay
  • Governments
  • Human Rights

• Governments like China and the United Arab Emirates are investing heavily in AI and see it as a competitive advantage.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Advantage
  • Governments
  • Competitive

• Governments and their official representatives will be strictly neutral on matters of religion: not hostile, not promotional, simply neutral.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Religion
  • Governments
  • Representatives

• I think philanthropy is also growing and catching on. Figuring out how the philanthropy sector, which is quite small compared to the private sector, which is the biggest by far, and then the governments, you know, even in these poor countries over time has to take on these key responsibilities. How does philanthropy accelerate that? Drive the kind of innovations, make sure they get used well. So it plays this kind of special role.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Governments
  • Philanthropy
  • Sector

• The only way out of international dictatorship is to place international law above governments, which means that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Means
  • Governments
  • Dictatorship

• It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People
  • Governments
  • Revolutions

• There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Corruption
  • Politicians
  • Governments

• Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Advantage
  • Governments
  • Promises

• When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Authority
  • Religions
  • Brains

• Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Governments
  • Interpretation
  • Fights

• Governments institutionalize something for nothing.

  

  James Cook
  • Nothing
  • Governments
  • Institutionalize

• I think major reorganisation is not something the government's about to do.

  

  Theresa May
  • Governments
  • Reorganisation

• Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Compromise
  • Oil
  • Governments

• We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing governments have ever come together to do. Since World War II, this new institution is the only one that's emerged and is saving all these lives.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Work
  • Institution

• Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness that their decisions provoke or their negligence permits. It is a duty of an international citizenship to always bring the testimony of people's suffering to the eyes and ears of governments, sufferings for which it's untrue that they are not responsible. The suffering of men must never be a mere silent residue of policy. It grounds an absolute right to stand up and speak to those who hold power.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Policy
  • Responsible
  • Unhappiness

• Fortunately, both governments have been in favor of studying the Mexican migration problem in greater depth. For the first time, I think, we will have something scientifically sound that says something about this phenomenon. The study is ongoing, and I hope that, with a push from both of us, it will provide a sound basis for serious public discussion on the migration issue.

  

  Ernesto Zedillo
  • Problem
  • Phenomenon
  • I Hope

• Marriage ... has historically been a battlefield, the site of collisions within and between governments and religions over who should regulate it. But marriage has weathered centuries of skirmishes and change. It has evolved from an institution that was imposed on some people and denied to others, to the loving union of companionship, commitment, and caring between equal partners that we think of today.

  

  Evan Wolfson
  • Change
  • Marriage
  • Religions

• Mayors are accountable. Local governments are accountable.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Governments
  • Accountable
  • Mayors

• We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Oil
  • Governments
  • Suppose

• People are used to getting a lot of information quickly, and they're used to being quite empowered as consumers, and they go to governments expecting a similar treatment; they want to find data and they want to influence events quickly, and yet they come into this brick wall.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • People
  • Information
  • Consumers

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