The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Has the center of gravity shifted such that all governments have greater powers and fewer restrictions than they ever had, and are… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The media understands the system only on the basis of ministers and governments. It seldom sympathises with the people who work within… — Ravish Kumar Copy Share Image
The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise… — Anthony Albanese Copy Share Image
It costs governments money to keep fuel prices low. Oil-rich Yemen, for instance, devotes 9 percent of its GDP to making sure… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
When governments work well, they safeguard citizens' health, well-being, resilience and security, and they increase prosperity. To do this, they must respond… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family… — Carl Paladino Copy Share Image
When you go and you tour Europe, or you go and you tour Egypt, or you go and you tour Iraq, or… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in… — Spencer Abraham Copy Share Image
The problem is you have people who are keenly aware of what their time span is. Governments work towards the next election;… — Alexander Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Governments strong enough to protect individuals against the violence of their fellows make possible the evolution of an increasingly complex order of… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
“To him, one of the most fascinating historical aspects of governments was their complete disregard for governing. Governments were single-minded and interested… — Hank Quense Copy Share Image
Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time;… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I am well aware of the facts presented by numerous security experts on the many ways in which the United States' digital… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“A political system that is all checks and balances is potentially no more successful than one with no checks, because governments periodically… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
As a general rule, governments are unlimited in their powers. All free governments, perhaps all other governments, are entitled in some shape… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Governments mostly don't do much. And you've also got to understand the level of incompetence out there. Nobody knows what they're doing.… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
We should all be able to have faith that our governments are working in our best interests - and if they aren't,… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed… — William Kamkwamba Copy Share Image
It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
“Governments are bigger than ever, but under neoliberalism they have far less pretense to being concerned with addressing non-corporate interests. And” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The world is not going to fall as long as there is confidence in governments and in banking institutions and the financial… — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
“Many people over forty have at least one health condition that affects their ability to work a forty hour work week effectively.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
