I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting… — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However,… — Tadashi Yanai Copy Share Image
I wish I could say I was shocked at the reports the NSA is secretly spying on the private phone calls of… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Conservatives insist that government should be "run more like a business." One might wonder how that could be possible, since government does… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Why these people who want to do so much good for everyone, who call themselves government and this and that, why them… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
The government is supporting the injured athletes for their recovery in every aspect, but I feel if we have a world-class rehab… — Sandeep Singh Copy Share Image
No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year - 350,000 young and educated people. I know about… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
[The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever… — James Madison Copy Share Image
WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
For many residents, the DMV is the face of state government - it is an office that virtually every adult needs to… — Ned Lamont Copy Share Image
A U.S. Senator should have the same right as a member of the Knesset...to disagree with any government when its actions may… — Charles H. Percy Copy Share Image
Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
There's tremendous pressure, if you're in that [goverment] system, to be involved and be interested and to care about it. There's no… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have… — Els Borst Copy Share Image
When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography.… — Rondal Partridge Copy Share Image
Just take Kosovo: back then, UN bodies decided that Kosovo should become independent of Serbia and that the interests of Serbia's central… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it… — Brian Mulroney Copy Share Image
One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Obviously, I don't want to minimize the patriarchal nature of our media, our government and our culture as a whole. But I… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale… — Julie Bishop Copy Share Image
Government is not a human institution. It is a divine institution that humans are to run on His behalf. When they create… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963,… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Investors have to remember: corporate profits are going up, but stocks are going up faster. How can that continue indefinitely? Investors can… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars:… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image