China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.
Virginia FoxxA President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Harry S TrumanGovernment is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
Jimmy CarterThe business of government is justice.
Woodrow WilsonThe best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald ReaganAs long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Pierre De BeaumarchaisBe thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will RogersEvery single member of this Labour government, if you go back 20 years, has made the most extraordinary 180 degree turn.
Brian FeeneyEvery decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Henry L MenckenWhat's so frustrating about this is that we are on the verge of seeing the beginnings of a democratic and permanent government [on Iraq]
Jack StrawNo government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Ronald ReaganIf the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.
Vince CableIf you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Frank HerbertYes is the answer to that question. I've enjoyed being in government... if it would be useful for me to serve I would like to do that. [saying he would like to work for Gordon Brown despite his previous opinions of him!]
Charles ClarkeThere is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal.
Jack KevorkianGood government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.
Sir Henry Campbell-BannermanI am concerned about a society that has demonstrably lost confidence in its institutions, in the government, in the press, in the church, in the military - as well as in business.
George CabotI believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free
Abraham LincolnI think we should do better next week, better the week after, and better right throughout the course of our government. Sometimes in parties these things happen, but it is not acceptable and I do believe that what people now want to do is to debate the future - about policy - and I think the issues about what Tony Blair will or will not do are going to be left to Tony Blair
Gordon BrownThe thought that... I would say anything on the euro other than what's the government's position is absolutely barmy.
Denis MacShaneThe best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheMorals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
Denis DiderotIt's a contradiction in terms, you can be open or you can have government.
John NettletonDebt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people
Wendell PhillipsBut without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.
Jeb BushI want to lead a government humble enough to know its place - where I will always strive to be - and that is on people's side
Gordon BrownI was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
Harold McMillanThe less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity
Martin Van BurenA wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labour and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas JeffersonToday, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Ronald ReaganWe will create a civilisation of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
John BarlowThere's nothing our rulers [Labour government] enjoy more than banging up a decent, hard-working taxpayer, especially if they're suspected of voting Tory.
Richard LittlejohnIt is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
John GardnerDifferent men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
AristotleOn account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will RogersTruth is the glue that holds government together.
Gerald FordGovernment, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas PainePlease receive in the name of the Spanish government and the people of Spain our warmest congratulations for your election as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and my best wishes for the Papacy which you begin today. [to Pope Benedict XVI]
Jose Luis Rodriguez ZapateroWhen you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Harry S TrumanA corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
Larry EllisonI believe this is responsible government, not as some have called it 'Big Brother government' [on ID Cards]
Tony BlairFascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power
Benito MussoliniNever trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns.
Benjamin FranklinThe most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald Reagan'Make America what we want it to be — a literate country and a hopefuller country.' —Washington, D.C., Jan. 11, 2001
'Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.'
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
'I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.'
Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000
'The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.'
Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000
'They misunderestimated me.'
Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.'
St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
'The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.'
-All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000
BUSH: 'First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre, and ...'
MATTHEWS: 'What's that in English?' BUSH: 'Fifteenth of September.' (Dieciseis de Septiembre = Sept. 16)
-Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
-Reuters, May 5, 2000
'Will the highways on the Internet become more few?'
-Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
'This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.'
-Speaking during 'PERSEVERENCE Month' at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
'What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody
else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.'
-The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000
'Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?'
-Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
'Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.'
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'I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.'
-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
George W Bush
We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity to move forward to independence, democracy and equality.
Alex Salmond
He's given a lifetime of service to the party. Without his contribution - among others - we wouldn't have had three terms of government.
I know he has been damaged by events in his personal life - those are, in my view, private matters and should remain so.
He should be judged by his contribution. [on John 'Two Jags' Prescott]
Des Browne
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter.
George Grenville
Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them.
Giuseppe Mazzini
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