Governments Quotes · Page 6

Many governments are quick to condemn Assad, but a dwindling number of them would celebrate a rebel victory in Damascus.

— Richard Engel

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

— Lester B. Pearson

People who looked like me were not in positions of political influence, let alone leading governments when I was younger.

— Humza Yousaf

WikiLeaks exposed the most dangerous lies of all, which are those that are told to us by elected governments.

— Jemima Khan

We have to demand that governments live up to their promises and make education a reality for every child.

— Shakira

Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

— Noam Chomsky

Far too many governments are cutting back on their investment in human development.

— Winnie Byanyima

Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of…

— Jonathan Turley

Intel continues... to abuse their monopoly, and that's why, around the world, governments and regulatory agencies continue to go after them.

— Hector Ruiz

No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society in a…

— Charles Koch

I don't think I'm against all wars, but you'd have to have a damn good reason to send your son or daughter…

— Paul Haggis

Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them…

— Ian Kiernan

“Governments are bigger than ever, but under neoliberalism they have far less pretense to being concerned with addressing non-corporate interests. And”

— Noam Chomsky

“The misfortune of the world is that people who are too incompetent to be managers even in an apartment block come to…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Living in this manner also gave them the opportunity to locate targets and develop methods of attack that would make the most…

— Jo Bonner

As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library…

— Karin Slaughter

“Oh, religion and talk of differences in morality, all of that us-versus-them stuff, is what gets the common man behind the war…

— Lindsay Buroker

“All governments stress an employment-intensive force of production, but are unwilling to recognize that jobs can also destroy the use-value of free…

— Ivan Illich

I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud,…

— Leonard Read

Throughout history governments have been chronically short of revenue. The reason should be clear: unlike you and me, governments do not produce…

— Murray Rothbard

The idea that, in the age of Google, Facebook and the internet, government can control the 'commanding heights' of the economy is…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless -- and…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The federal government's role is to establish a process whereby industry can pitch a project, and Canadians can be reassured that this…

— Justin Trudeau

“Laws are designed by corporate governments to control the behaviors of their mass populations.”

— Steven Magee

In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.

— Richard J. Maybury

Governments understand that help is power. That is why governments offer as much help to as many people as they can.

— Neale Donald Walsch

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

— Anonymous

Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.

— Richard N. Haass

A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much.

— Angus Deaton

The climate issue is for the state. It is an obligation for all governments.

— Michel Temer

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.

— Anonymous

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.

— Thomas Paine

I've seen at first-hand what Labour Governments can achieve in power.

— Angela Rayner

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

— Robert M. Gates

“The governments response to COVID-19 revealed them to be a shady group of scallywags.”

— Steven Magee

I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.

— Henry Paulson

“Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government.”

— Steven Magee

Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.

— Ludwig Borne

“Bad governments always lie because telling the truth requires honour and courage!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan