Government Quotations..

• I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.
  Michael Bloomberg # Great, Challenging, Job, World, Government Quotes
• I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.
  Michael Bloomberg # Government, Business, Thinking, Change, Loss Quotes
• My first rule – the golden rule – ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and that current spending will be met from taxation.
  Gordon Brown # Taxes, Economic, Government, Investing, Politics Quotes
• There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.
  David Cameron # Society, Government Quotes
• Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.
  David Cameron # Money, Government, Party Quotes
• As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?
  Jacques Chirac # Organization, Government, Politics Quotes
• Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi # Culture, Different, Protection, History, Identity, Government Quotes
• Instead of seeing government as a partner we fear, I think we should see them as a partner we welcome.
  Peter Drucker # Government, Partnership, Fear Quotes
• A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
  Larry Ellison # Company, Goals, Profit, Money, Government, Politics, Power Quotes
• You do not think you live in a real democracy, because still you have a special type of government department like the Intelligence service that are above the law. You cannot invoke them, they can do anything and they still do.
  Mohamed Al-Fayed # Democracy, Government, Politics, Wrong, Thinking Quotes
• You'll run into problems where governments don't share those values. Long term, these values will win out.
  David Filo # Government, Problems, Value, Winning Quotes
• A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.
  Joschka Fischer # Politics, Government, Changes, Improvement, Iraq, Question Quotes
• What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.
  Peter Garrett # Politics, Government, Truth, Promise, Negative Quotes
• The challenge for governments is to adopt policies that address the increasing energy demand but within the long-term context of climate change. Many elements can be considered: ways of making coal cleaner; rapidly developing and supporting a suite of renewable energy technologies with an emphasis on increased energy efficiency; carbon caps and trading; and, of course, looking hard at ways of reducing and localising energy demand.
  Peter Garrett # Government, Challenging, Climate Change, Politics, Technology, Energy, Carbon Quotes
• I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.
  Bill Gates # Passion, Success, Products, Government Quotes
• We live in a dirty and dangerous world ... There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.
  Katharine Graham # Life, Negative, World, Democracy, Information, Government Quotes
• Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
  Alan Greenspan # Savings, Government Quotes
• I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.
  Bob Hawke # Stupid, Economic, Government, Plan, Thinking, Risk, Bad Quotes
• There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.
  Bob Hawke # Government, Doubt, Reform, Teamwork, Contribution Quotes
• How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
  Adolf Hitler # Government, Thinking, Intelligent, Luck, Smart Quotes
• I will be fighting every minute of every day of the campaign because I am determined to win and I think it's important that we have a strong experienced Government that knows it's own mind in these more difficult times.
  John Howard # Politics, Winning, Elections, Determined, Government Quotes
• One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
  Lee Iacocca # Government Quotes
• It is very helpful to have a partner on whom you can rely in any situation. But the problem starts because some people don't like it that one twin would be president and the other prime minister.
  Lech Kaczynski # Relationships, Help, Problems, State, Government Quotes
• It is necessary to restore the dignity of the presidential office and cut it off decisively from non-transparent connections... For the first time in many years, I see a chance in Poland for major change. The presidential office can guarantee that these changes are carried out without undermining the social equilibrium.
  Lech Kaczynski # Government, Changes, Solidarity, Important Quotes
• I want to call...for us to quickly conclude work on the government.
  Lech Kaczynski # Success, Decisions, Politics, Government Quotes
• If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.
  Paul Keating # Government, Plan, Economic, Strategy, Problems, Job, Wages Quotes
• The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ass is a constitutional infringement.
  Herb Kelleher # Funny, Government Quotes
• Let this presidency be one of national unity, one which will help to bridge the divide of Poland's difficult and painful past for the good of the Poland of the future.
  Bronislaw Komorowski # Future, Nation, Politics, Difficult, Challenging, Government Quotes
• Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
  Abraham Lincoln # Power, Government, Value, World, Belief, Hope Quotes
• War is not solely past, it can be our future, and these are you, ladies and gentlemen deputies, who are the guardians of our peace, our security and our future.
  Francois Mitterrand # War, Future, Peace, Politics, Government, Responsibility Quotes
• What does libertarian mean? As much individual responsibility as possible, as little government as possible, as few rules as possible. But I'm not saying it should be taken to the absolute limit.
  Rupert Murdoch # Responsibility, Government Quotes
• As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we still think it’s worthwhile.
  Rupert Murdoch # Politics, Government, Investing Quotes
• All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
  Benito Mussolini # Government, Power, Control Quotes
• I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic. And emotional.
  Richard Nixon # Woman, Government, Emotional, Negative Quotes
• We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
  Richard Nixon # America, Great, Government, Society, Positive Quotes
• I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
  Richard Nixon # Quitting, Politics, Government, American Quotes
• When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist.
  Nancy Pelosi # Global Warming, Environment, Leadership, Climate Change, Government, Influence Quotes
• We must remain focused on the greatest threat to the security of the United States, the clear and present danger of terrorism. We know what we must do to protect America, but this Administration is failing to meet the challenge. Democrats have a better way to ensure our homeland security.
  Nancy Pelosi # Focus, Great, Protection, America, Terrorist, Challenging, Failure, Government, Party Quotes
• We have two oilmen in the White House. The logical follow-up from that is $3-a-gallon gasoline. It is no accident. It is a cause and effect.
  Nancy Pelosi # Oil, Government Quotes
• Protecting America from terrorism requires more than just resolve, it requires a plan. As we have seen in Iraq, planning is not the Bush Administration's strong suit.
  Nancy Pelosi # Protection, America, Terrorist, Planning, Iraq, Government, Strong Quotes
• We are always in need of foreign policy and finance experts.
  Romano Prodi # Help, Government Quotes
• Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
  Paul Samuelson # Asia, Government, Politics, Democracy, Weakness Quotes
• Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.
  Nicolas Sarkozy # Success, Human Rights, Politics, Challenging, Government Quotes
• I see a military option a high-grade danger, ... Therefore I can certainly rule out that a German government under my leadership would take part in one.
  Gerhard Schroeder # War, Government, Negative, Leadership, Responsibility Quotes
• Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the treasury of the state.
  Adam Smith # Tax, Society, Government Quotes
• To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.
  Adam Smith # Customers, Economic, Government Quotes
• The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities...
  Adam Smith # Government, Support Quotes
• Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
  Adam Smith # Government, Property, Rich, Poverty, Economic, Politics Quotes
• It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.
  Adam Smith # Government, Economic, Private, Society Quotes
• If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and aeroplanes.
  Joseph Stalin # Politics, Death, Peace, Military, Government Quotes
• If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
  Woodrow Wilson # Government, Power, America, Ambition Quotes
• Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
  Woodrow Wilson # Democracy, Governmental Quotes
• A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
  Boris Yeltsin # Government Quotes

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