Governments Quotes · Page 13

Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.

— Henry Rollins

The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.

— Lysander Spooner

If our governments are so compromised that they will not tell us the truth, then we must step forward to grasp it.

— Sara Harrison

“Governments accountable to the voters focus on building roads and schools—not weapons of mass destruction.”

— George W. Bush

Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Unfortunately, governments do not have a philanthropic approach towards future governments.

— Gita Gopinath

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

— Henry David Thoreau

I call for greater measures to involve more women at higher levels in mine action. Governments should do more to address gender…

— Ban Ki-moon

People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than…

— Anita Roddick

Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs

— Mohammad Khatami

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and…

— Anonymous

A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world,…

— Gary Locke

I think the big difference between most countries and the U.S., is that governments are more straightforward now about their intentions to…

— Pavel Durov

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

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these…

— Kevin Rudd

“Originally, governments had very limited functions. Their purpose was simply to “preserve and protect.” Then someone added “provide.” When governments began to…

— Neale Donald Walsch

The power of the individual, market forces, and the private sector permeate our lives. With that power comes responsibility to address huge…

— Daniel Lubetzky

Don't Latin Americans have the right to ask why their elected governments are being opposed and coup leaders supported?.. Poverty and hardship…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing…

— Jack Dorsey

That's one of the biggest issues that we see in the question of governments right now, I think, in the Western world.…

— Edward Snowden

One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly…

— Ban Ki-moon

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

— Ronald Reagan

Governments at all levels and the whole society should act more vigorously to protect the land our lives depend on.

— Li Keqiang

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous...

— Abraham Lincoln

Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.

— Andrei Sakharov

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

— George Papandreou

To be sure, governments will remain critical to any comprehensive effort to save our planet.

— Lawrence Bender

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

— Jaron Lanier

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

— Chuck Hagel

Many governments have faced the proposal of One Rank One Pension but no solution has been found yet.

— Narendra Modi

The government of China has admitted that they've been involved in cyber infiltrations around the world and in governments.

— Andrew Scheer

The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma.

— Jose Angel Gurria

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

— John Ralston Saul

Companies, communities and governments have to be innovators, and they cannot do it alone.

— Julie Sweet

“If a government has the weak eyesight of a mole, that government only brings disaster to that country! The ability to see…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The federal government gets a lot press, and that's what the media talks about, but your state and local governments, in many…

— Kane

“We have two Governments in Washington: one run by the elected people—which is a minor part—and one run by the moneyed interests,…

— Studs Terkel