The main export of the countries where dictatorship rules is their national leaders. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more. — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
You may not violate the rights of one human being, even if it is suggested to be done for the sake of… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments. — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Laying the groundwork for smaller, smarter government, especially at the federal level, is going to be tough. But it is essential for… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
Let the free market for wireless services and devices flourish. If the government gets out of the way, the wireless marketplace will… — Ajit Pai Copy Share Image
The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I've said many times around the world that like any government, like any country, like, any set of human institutions, we have… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The media - and I'm not blaming them - obviously like to seize on the differences between people and, sure, there are… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them.… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
There was only really one time that I had a substantive interaction with the president [Barak Obama] directly, and that was in… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In America, we need to go forward in nationalizing several large corporations: I think that's possible; we nationalized General Motors; we nationalized… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It's important to Russia to be able to attract capital and to attract technology to develop their oil fields, their oil and… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Don't engage with corrupt officials under any circumstances. The results are always bad. — Bill Browder Copy Share Image
It's a bit much describing it as a moral challenge from a government that's tripled the deficit and added $100 billion to… — Tony Burke Copy Share Image
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have. — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more striking to an European traveller in the United States than the absence of what we term the Government, or… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I'm not the government. Nor would I EVER want to be the government - I don't know how you feel about government,… — Bernard von NotHaus Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
What typically happens in government is the exact opposite of how things should work. — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
A government can't cut its way out of a recession any more than you can dig yourself out of a hole. — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't care how sacred is freedom, but I think the time has come for governments, at least the Malaysian government, to… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image