Governments Quotes · Page 9

Healthy democracies require healthy relationships amongst citizens and their governments.

— Phil Scott

The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.

— Amal Clooney

“System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability.”

— Amit Kalantri

“It has been my personal experience that the government engages in a wide range of frauds with the common people.”

— Steven Magee

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

— Henry Bonilla

Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.

— Herbert Hoover

...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

— David Rockefeller

“In times of toxic governments, compassion will keep you sane.”

— Steven Magee

The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate…

— Geoff Mulgan

Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local…

— Bill Dedman

Clear limits should be set on how power is exercised in cyberspace by companies as well as governments through the democratic political…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments…

— Allan Boesak

“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Governments' programs once launched unfortunately never disappear...Get real.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Ultimately, there is no entity called 'government'; there are only people forming themselves into groups called 'governments' and acting in a 'governmental'…

— Murray Rothbard

How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were…

— Adolf Hitler

I hear that from so many different governments, people coming to me and saying, 'You should be careful'. But I don't want…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this…

— James Russell Lowell

History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting…

— Vint Cerf

“What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The thing I would say is governments have the tendency to over-promise and under-perform. So the over-promise part ends up sounding very…

— Charlie Baker

Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain,…

— Emma Goldman

“These governments know much more than they will ever tell or care to spend money locating, because they have most of it…

— David Leadbeater

Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is no time and space limitation for public accountability on the Internet. Creative commonality is standard and does not resemble the…

— Eduardo Paes

Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets.

— Shimon Peres

“Governments are the deadliest terrorist organizations that have ever existed if body count means anything.”

— Bryant McGill

“Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.”

— Bryant McGill

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

— Samantha Power

Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.

— Pauline Hanson

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

— Henry David Thoreau

I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.

— Shimon Peres

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

— Kent Conrad

Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.

— Stephen Kinzer

I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

— Anonymous

Providing investors with recourse against governments is valuable.

— Jose Angel Gurria

“Governments are too stupid to understand that too much red tape does not bind a nation together—it tears it apart.”

— Jarod Kintz

We need to focus on the speed with which local governments can work with businesses.

— Muhtar Kent

With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that.

— Jimi Hendrix

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous...

— Abraham Lincoln