Governments Quotes · Page 5

I cannot be any clearer, minority governments don't work.

— Annastacia Palaszczuk

Tory governments are bad for Scotland.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Governments don't control people like they used to.

— Noam Chomsky

Its sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues.

— Ten Bears

What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid!

— Adolf Hitler

Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.

— Timothy Zahn

Too close and unthinking an allegiance to Washington has sometimes got British governments into trouble.

— Linda Colley

Far too many governments are cutting back on their investment in human development.

— Winnie Byanyima

“Laws are designed by corporate governments to control the behaviors of their mass populations.”

— Steven Magee

In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.

— Richard J. Maybury

Governments understand that help is power. That is why governments offer as much help to as many people as they can.

— Neale Donald Walsch

WikiLeaks exposed the most dangerous lies of all, which are those that are told to us by elected governments.

— Jemima Khan

We have to demand that governments live up to their promises and make education a reality for every child.

— Shakira

“the international legal system is still primarily geared towards the international community of states, represented by governments.”

— Anonymous

In Northern Ireland, people said there would never be a solution. But once people begin to have the political will and force…

— Mairead Corrigan

What you and I understand as a government doesn't exist in many African countries. In fact, what we call our governments are…

— George Ayittey

Serial killers do, on a small scale, what governments do on a large one. They are products of our times and these…

— Richard Ramirez

Governments have ever been known to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else,…

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have…

— Thomas Paine

“The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health…

— Steven Magee

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to…

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

I think we're not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country. We have not emphasized sufficiently the…

— Grace Lee Boggs

“All governments stress an employment-intensive force of production, but are unwilling to recognize that jobs can also destroy the use-value of free…

— Ivan Illich

In Sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture represents two-thirds of all employment, governments are proving that resource commitments yield success. In 2004, African heads…

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library…

— Karin Slaughter

“Oh, religion and talk of differences in morality, all of that us-versus-them stuff, is what gets the common man behind the war…

— Lindsay Buroker

Throughout history governments have been chronically short of revenue. The reason should be clear: unlike you and me, governments do not produce…

— Murray Rothbard

The idea that, in the age of Google, Facebook and the internet, government can control the 'commanding heights' of the economy is…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud,…

— Leonard Read

Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

— Noam Chomsky

Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.

— Richard N. Haass

A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much.

— Angus Deaton

The climate issue is for the state. It is an obligation for all governments.

— Michel Temer

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

— Anonymous

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

— Robert M. Gates

“The governments response to COVID-19 revealed them to be a shady group of scallywags.”

— Steven Magee

I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.

— Henry Paulson

Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.

— Ludwig Borne

“Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government.”

— Steven Magee