Quotes and Sayings About Government
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To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.
-- Amity Shlaes -
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.
-- Amy Davidson -
War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
-- Amy Goodman -
The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
-- Amy Goodman -
Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.
-- Amy Goodman -
I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of the office and who respects the very different roles that the Constitution provides for each of the three branches of government.
-- Amy Klobuchar -
The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.
-- Amy Waldman -
Centralization of society's vital services in giant computer centers, reservoirs, nuclear power plants, air- traffic control centers, 100-story skyscrapers, and government compounds increases its vulnerability. ... choosing his targets, today's saboteur could pollute a city's water supply, dynamite power transmission towers, cripple an airport control center, destroy a corporate or government computer center.
-- Anatol Rapoport -
Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.
-- Anatole Broyard -
...the West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding of Soviet convergence strategy which is intended to procure the subservience of the West to Moscow under an ultimate Communist World Government.
-- Anatoliy Golitsyn -
During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
I welcome the signing by the presidential candidates Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Dr. Ashraf Ghani of an agreement on the formation of a government of national unity in Afghanistan,
-- Anders Fogh Rasmussen -
I know very well that Berlin attaches great importance to NATO and solidarity, in terms of sharing the burden. For this reason, I feel confident that the German government will take the right decision, one that serves both German and NATO interests.
-- Anders Fogh Rasmussen -
I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there, that talked about terrorism in the country 20 years ago.
-- Andie MacDowell -
Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult.
-- Andre Marrou -
Bitcoin is not “unregulatedâ€. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted.
-- Andreas Antonopoulos -
The Communist Party and the Soviet Government display constant concern to strengthen the country's defensive might and raise the combat readiness of the Armed Forces.
-- Andrei Grechko -
Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.
-- Andrei Sakharov -
Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than what we have seen so far from journalists, academ- ics, and particularly former government officials.
-- Andrei Shleifer -
We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.
-- Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador -
There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.
-- Andrew Card -
He had a vision for changing our Medicare system, for bringing more people into the reality that our government should be a partner in preventing people from getting sick ... and that was part of our motivation for changing the Medicare system, and we are in the midst of a revolution in Medicare that will, for many, many generations have real results that will be good for America and good for American citizens.
-- Andrew Card -
I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development
-- Andrew Cuomo
