Governments that don't need to broaden their tax base have few incentives to respond to the needs of their people. — Denise Dresser Copy Share Image
The federal, state, and local governments are involved in virtually every aspect of business. — Luther Strange Copy Share Image
Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments. — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“If you want to be lied to, all you have to do is believe everything that the government tells you.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic. — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford. — Paul Martin Copy Share Image
The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The Sea Shepherd crew is doing what governments should be doing, but refuse to do themselves, because of the threats of trade… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims,… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the… — Peter Benenson Copy Share Image
Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity,… — David McCandless Copy Share Image
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are governments who are regulating things in different ways and those forms of regulation often don't square up. So you have… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
“The many governments within a single metropolitan area are almost designed to fight among themselves because state law makes them largely dependent… — Bruce Katz Copy Share Image
All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
The thing I would say is governments have the tendency to over-promise and under-perform. So the over-promise part ends up sounding very… — Charlie Baker Copy Share Image
“What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“The same is true for the market economy: the power of markets is enormous, but they have no inherent moral character. We… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“All governments, even these precious “democracies,” derive all their power by force. Do something the government doesn’t want, like, say, cross the… — S. Evan Townsend Copy Share Image
