Even when governments take the right steps to reform…

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death…

— Guy de Maupassant

“Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death…

— Guy de Maupassant

Governments are not always right.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

Consistent conservatives should frame their views in accordance with the fundamental belief that individuals, not governments, have the right to determine the course of…

— Richard Grenell

Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right…

— John Ralston Saul

...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this…

— Thomas Paine

Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what…

— Armando Iannucci

Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

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

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by…

— Al Gore

If we do not adhere firmly to the constitution, our governments will not last long and will change frequently.

— Suharto

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.…

— Noam Chomsky

The governments are seen to be less effective than they used to be. The private sector is perceived as being so much more efficient,…

— Mary Robinson

Governments follow their people. A great deal has to do with the vision of the leadership of governments. They have a vision, and they…

— Salman Khurshid