I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
“Authority is a responsible form of power; it should be given to responsible man.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike! — Plato Copy Share Image
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. — Guy De Maupassant Copy Share Image
Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Government is nothing but the regulated injustice that every rascal has in his heart. — Mariano Azuela Copy Share Image
In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property. — Alvin Francis Poussaint Copy Share Image
America is fed up with political correctness, and it is fed up with government that doesn't work. It's fed up with weakness… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Can't make your payments? No problem. The interest charges keep on coming. In fact, banks prefer it that way. More money for… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas… — Fred M. Vinson Copy Share Image
There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as… — Carlo Petrini Copy Share Image
Anarchism is that political philosophy which advocates the maximization of individual responsibility and the reduction of concentrated power regal, dictatorial, parliamentary: the… — Alex Comfort Copy Share Image
It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
California will not wait for our federal government to take strong action on global warming. We won't wait for the federal government.… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was… — John Hamill Copy Share Image
“At all events, in a society, all of whose members are free, and equal in the true sense of the words, there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery. — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My government is committed to carrying out electoral reforms. It is our firm resolve to keep criminal elements away from power. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
Demonetisation was a defining moment in the government's war on corruption and black money. — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I need money. I have a staff of 30, and four houses, never mind the government, to support. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
An empowered public is the foundation for a stronger society, more effective government, and a more successful state. — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there. — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
If the government can't get the economy moving again, they have a lot of fundamental problems. — David Wessel Copy Share Image
The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice. — James Cook Copy Share Image
The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them. — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
