Governments Quotes
1008 quotes by 693 authors
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We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.
— Michelle Bachelet
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I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.
— Antonio Banderas
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Fear is the foundation of most governments.
— John Adams
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
— Carol Bellamy
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Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone…
— Kate Adie
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct…
— John Berger
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It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.
— Julie Bishop
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If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments;…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments.
— John Boehner
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or…
— James Buchan
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People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes…
— David Cameron
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I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to…
— David Cameron
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This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and…
— Margaret Chan
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Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.
— Hugo Chavez
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Governments don't control people like they used to.
— Noam Chomsky
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I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.
— Nick Clegg
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We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have…
— Kofi Annan
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