Governments Quotes · Page 7

It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.

— Julie Bishop

Many governments have faced the proposal of One Rank One Pension but no solution has been found yet.

— Narendra Modi

The government of China has admitted that they've been involved in cyber infiltrations around the world and in governments.

— Andrew Scheer

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

— Chuck Hagel

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

— Jaron Lanier

To be sure, governments will remain critical to any comprehensive effort to save our planet.

— Lawrence Bender

Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Unfortunately, governments do not have a philanthropic approach towards future governments.

— Gita Gopinath

Every country in history that has gone down dark paths, where governments take on too much control and really intervene and take…

— Andrew Scheer

In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.

— Giles Foden

The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the…

— Rick Warren

With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their…

— Bill Schuette

“If only one didn't know that at the secret heart of all such organizations, corporations and governments alike, it still came down…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our…

— Julian Assange

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing…

— Mario Monti

There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting…

— Peter Singer

The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to…

— Michael Ignatieff

I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy…

— Richard McKenna

Despite the Obama administration's proclaimed commitment to global Internet freedom, the executive branch is not transparent about the types and capabilities of…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“For a quarter-century British governments had tried and failed to combine economic growth, increased social service provision and a high level of…

— John Morris Roberts

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

— Al Gore

I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you…

— David Cameron

One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

— Henry David Thoreau

The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.

— Lysander Spooner

“Governments accountable to the voters focus on building roads and schools—not weapons of mass destruction.”

— George W. Bush

If our governments are so compromised that they will not tell us the truth, then we must step forward to grasp it.

— Sara Harrison

There is always a temptation for governments: see a problem and announce a quick fix.

— Charles Kennedy

Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.

— Andrei Sakharov

“The legal system has been designed by governments and corporations to protect them from the common people.”

— Steven Magee

Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.

— Barbara Tuchman

Everyone knows that the Workers' Party governments did much more good than bad for the country.

— Fernando Haddad

More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

Too much of power has got concentrated in the hands of the Central and state governments.

— Arvind Kejriwal

Governments aren't going to go away; banks aren't going to go away.

— Brad Garlinghouse

[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.

— Nick Clegg

Governments like China and the United Arab Emirates are investing heavily in AI and see it as a competitive advantage.

— Rana el Kaliouby

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.

— Henry Bonilla

Healthy democracies require healthy relationships amongst citizens and their governments.

— Phil Scott