The world is not going to fall as long as there is confidence in governments and in banking institutions and the financial system.
Performance or no performance, perceptions do matter. More so the voters’s perceptions on the performance of their state governments.
Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.
There is always a temptation for governments: see a problem and announce a quick fix.
America is – and will always be – a success story. We have African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, and members of other ethnic groups elected to positions inside our governments.
We all have a responsibility to make sure everyone – including companies, governments, and researchers – develop AI with diversity in mind.
I’ve a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.
Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.
As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world.
I hear that from so many different governments, people coming to me and saying, ‘You should be careful’. But I don’t want to go around with bodyguards.
The Palestinians have tried everything, and by God, it’s Israel’s governments that taught us that the only thing the Israelis appreciate is force.
Governments change but the system doesn’t. One needs to believe in the system.
Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today – and longed for them tomorrow.
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; but in the end, it’s the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.
I do believe that it’s very frequent that officials from foreign governments will meet with members of Congress. They will meet with folks associated with campaigns. That’s not aberrational here in Washington.
While the World Bank is an inter-governmental institution, drawing its funds from member governments and run by a board of directors nominated by member governments, its policies have increasingly become sensitive to civil society pressure and NGO agendas.
Governments that fail to provide jobs to those who are willing and able to work begin to lose their legitimacy and will face the anger of the electorate.
Governments cannot interfere in football matters – Fifa suspends countries for that.
I believe the quickest and most sure way to reduce poverty, raise living standards and create jobs around the world is to make economies and governments more open and free, thereby encouraging business and entrepreneurship.
For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal’s economy.
Growing inequality is exacerbated by the companies who simply treat workers as commodities, and our governments are cowered by their demands to perpetuate this model of greed.
Mayors are accountable. Local governments are accountable.
With the globalization, it’s difficult for governments to impose decisions on private companies.
Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.
I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China’s intentions are.
The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our communities who guide our economic policy and act as our mediators with provincial and federal governments.
I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in terms of imagination – my imagination is always fertile. I’m either thinking of my own things or constantly engaged by the things that other people do.
Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.
In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities.
Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.
When government disappears, it’s not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
I will not give way because too many previous governments have backed down.
Sharing data allows us to research, communicate, consume media, buy and sell, play games, and more. In return, businesses develop products, scientists undertake research, and governments use data to enable voting, inform policies, collect tax, and provide better public services.
I gradually understood why European mothers aren’t in perpetual panic about their work-life balance and don’t write books about how executive moms should just try harder: Their governments are helping them – and doing it competently.
After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.
2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we all join together and work together, governments of all persuasions state, territory and local; businesses large and small; unions and local communities right across the nation.
Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
The United States must continue to support efforts made by Middle Eastern governments to educate Muslim youth and steer them away from violent radicalization.
The task for governments across Europe is to take a practical approach that can meet our humanitarian obligations in both the short and long term.
The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
We have shown, given these last three years, that we were succeeding in fighting terrorists. While during the first 30 years of the former governments they didn’t.
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.
What is it but a cunningly devised scheme to take from one State and to give to another – to replenish the treasury of some of the States from the pockets of the people of the others; in reality, to make them support the governments and pay the debts of other States as well as their own?
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
When governments work well, they safeguard citizens’ health, well-being, resilience and security, and they increase prosperity. To do this, they must respond effectively to the new, the unexpected, and the game-changing.
Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
Americans cannot afford to turn a blind eye to Russian interference in our democracy. We need to get to the facts and learn lessons to prevent future misconduct by foreign governments.
WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.
Privacy and security are the ultimate shared responsibility, and everyone – including governments, companies, and citizens – have an important role to play.
It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.
