The chancellor's failure to give Britain's taxpayers value for money will be the terrible legacy of this government.
Oliver LetwinLaws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
Sir Thomas MoreThe federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.
Bob EtheridgeA 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 GrenvilleWe in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
Thomas JeffersonAnd it's absolutely hypocritical for the political party that talks about states rights, to suddenly ignore states rights, that say that the federal government or federalism has no business in this kind of business.
Gary AckermanParts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.
Marty MeehanWe are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
William E GladstoneThere 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 KevorkianA free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd WrightEven to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Alexander HamiltonLet's tell young people the best books are yet to written: the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them [a nice and positive quote!]
John ErskineThe Germans, if this Government is returned, are going to pay every penny; they are going to be squeezed as a lemon is squeezed - until the pips squeak. (Speech at Cambridge, 10 Dec 1918)
Sir Eric GeddesAs long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Pierre De BeaumarchaisI condemn this completely irresponsible act by the government of the DPRK [on nuclear testing]
Tony BlairGovernment 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 CarterIt's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
Alan ShepherdThis is a great honour for Germany.
I think he will be a worthy successor to Pope John Paul II. I congratulate him on behalf of the government and all Germans. [on the election of Pope Benedict XVI]
Gerhard SchroederDuring the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines
Norm DicksToday it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
Wendell PhillipsEvery country has the government it deserves.
Joseph De MaistreDisbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom RobbinsThe lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people
Grover ClevelandNo government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole FranceGovernment loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfil its obligations.
Martin GrossI am not going to oppose every cut the government comes up with
Ed MilibandThe Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James MadisonI have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.
Roy BarnesIf the government spends money in the regions of the UK it is called subsidy. But if it pours it down the gullet of the cities and counties in south-east England it is called essential support of the infrastructure.
John ForsythGovernment, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas PaineDemocracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonGovernments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
Georg W HegelTimes are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism
Tony BlairThe business of government is justice.
Woodrow WilsonThe happiness of society is the end of government.
John AdamsWe 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 SalmondHope 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 MazziniOur flag is a thing of beauty and inspiration if you look at it with the right perspective. The flag is beautiful... it's not the fault of the flag some of the people making decisions for our country are not. The government makes very poor decisions... OFTEN... but don't blame the flag. Try to remember what raising it at Iwo Jima meant to the surviving 27 men who lived to see it raised on Mount Suribachi. How many flag burners would burn that flag?
John A MarshallI've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.
Michael BloombergA little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
P J O'RourkeJohn Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling the old rule that oppositions do not win elections, governments lose them.
Lord Rees-MoggLiberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow WilsonDifferent 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 RogersOne of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Donald TrumpI 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 BrownIt is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.
Svetlana AlliluyevaHistory proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
Vladimir PutinThe Govenment has tried everything to solve the problem of the coal industry - semi-starvation, imprisonment, extortion, threats, the supplication of the miner's leaders, and what is the almost omnipotence of Churchill's oratory. All have failed. There is one thing they have not tried. They haven't tried getting rid of the coal owners. For the one truth the Government has not yet learned is .... you can get coal without the coal owners, but you can't get coal without miners.
Aneurin BevanI work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. (Letter to Duncan Grant)
John Maynard Keynes
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