The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.
Sometimes it seems that what really worries the Israeli governments, even more than the Muslim Brotherhood, is the real Egypt.
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
More dangerous than voting for change… is that people no longer vote because they have lost trust not only in governments but in democracy.
Sadly, Indians are not very easily accepted in Pakistan, and that has a lot to do with the governments.
No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent ‘safe.’ We’re all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities.
The federal, state, and local governments are involved in virtually every aspect of business.
In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the ‘perpetual union’ they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.
Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.
There are so many people that are offended by debate and free speech that sometimes governments cower. It’s just way easier to play into the hands of people who are totalitarian.
From playing bass guitar in a covers band in Israel… to my various partnerships with media companies, investment companies, governments etc. all over the world, I’ve been extremely lucky.
Governments, of course, can – and do – soak the rich.
Most sports federations, corporations, and governments don’t change voluntarily. Change is brought by the disenfranchised demanding better.
I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.
Over the years, online, we’ve laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it’s been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.
I worry policymakers are not putting enough attention on what we should be planning for 10 years down the road. In general, governments aren’t necessarily that good at looking down the road when it is a difficult issue.
When E.U. governments are able to agree on political and economic policies, they will remain a superpower to influence the Americans, the Russians, Indians and Chinese over the coming decades. Britain on its own would resume the decline which continued through most of the 20th century.
Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.
Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
In 1984, the Federal Trade Commission released a report that explained why taxis could charge customers exorbitant prices for dismal service. The simple reason, according to the 176-page study: lack of competition in the market. The culprit: local governments.
Governments can help support European music by promoting public awareness that when people take music that doesn’t belong to them, they undermine the future of those very artists whose work they enjoy.
Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other – to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is the art of strategic lying.
The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.
The number one objective is that people who make the investment in digitization, whether they are governments or service providers, get a reasonable return.
One always has to worry when capitalism has a role in health care. If you’re just using health care to make money, you will treat the wrong diseases. Capitalism has its limits. There is a role for governments, and this is one where they should be involved.
People make mistakes. And one of the mistakes that the United States consistently made was that it could intervene and somehow adjust people’s governments, especially in the Middle East.
Foreign governments want to lie to the American people.
Governments are not always right.
Crucially, African governments must ensure they prioritize the eradication of tax evasion and tax avoidance.
In order to encourage private investors to pursue long-term, responsible projects, governments need to promote consistent policies and frameworks.
Governments spending billions on a humans-to-Mars program won’t allow wild-eyed billionaires to steal the glory; all heck will break loose as the public and sidelined governments decry and block the perceived cosmic land grab. Yet the private folks aren’t waiting.
Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters.
At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.
All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today – from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.
We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens’ taxes – that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.
Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.
The E.U. is a common platform where we come together and agree to do certain things. But the E.U. is never going to take over the responsibility which governments have for prosperity and security of their people.
Providing financial incentives for both local communities and national governments to conserve and restore forests also makes sense. It will put an economic value on these precious natural resources and drive the right behaviours from both government and business.
The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.
Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S.
We’re not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don’t want them meddling in ours.
Regime is made up of people, so I do put faces to regimes and governments, so I feel that all human beings have the right to be given the benefit of the doubt, and they also have to be given the right to try to redeem themselves if they so wish.
For highly indebted governments, low interest rates are critical to keep debt levels sustainable and ease pressure to restructure debt and recapitalize banks. The shift to a high sovereign-debt-yield equilibrium would make it impossible to achieve fiscal balance.
The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.
By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.
The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.
There’s a lot of thought that bitcoin will be a huge threat to existing tax systems or existing ways governments have of controlling currency flows across their border. I personally think governments will do what governments have always done: they will adapt.
England is so dominant within the U.K. that separate English and U.K. parliaments and governments are a recipe for weakness and instability.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
It was very important for us to hear that both European governments and the IMF are going to sustain and augment their commitment to Greece because they don’t pursue the debt reduction route. They’re actually extending more debt, more loans to Greece.
