Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
The building up of a new, far-reaching system of inspection on the question of equal pay, with power to investigate every business in the United States, administered by a colossal new government agency with vast enforcement powers, would not be helpful to women, as far as I can see.
I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or ‘chosen’ or feel they have an entitlement… be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life.
My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children.
Socialism means slavery.
Government unions should not be allowed to influence the public officials they are lobbying, and sitting across the bargaining table from, through campaign donations and expenditures.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
I do think voters are ready for a change in Olympia and after 28 years of one party rule, they are ready to put a new team on the field and bring a new approach to state government.
From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.
The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated.
As a businessperson, I don’t have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
I love my country. It’s just the government I don’t trust.
The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion – always.
Technology is just one of the factors affecting the world of work. Economics, demographics, sociological trends, and government policies are four other core influences reshaping labour markets and determining how we will work for years ahead.
Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys’ network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
The government of the United States doesn’t want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war. It wants peace, but what’s happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? Palestine? What’s happening? What’s happened over the last hundred years in Latin America and in the world?
I don’t think that it’s up to government to dictate what people should wear.
I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they’re talking about because they’ve never been to a country with a bad government.
It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.
Building sustainable cities – and a sustainable future – will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders – including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that’s at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we’ve got to stop that.
Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!
Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can – must have some sort of responsibility, because they’re in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.
I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies.
If there’s anything a public servant hates to do it’s something for the public.
This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman’s personal decisions about her life.
I stand for all those who feel that the government no longer understands the individual and no longer respects individual rights.
Those who cry out that the government should ‘do something’ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.
The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.
I stated that aboriginals deserve protection under Canada’s human rights laws and that the record dollars that the government is spending on aboriginals should reach the people in need.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
In city hall and in local government, you have to get things done without drama.
Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
Louisiana was as close to South Asia as the United States could get: it had spicy food, humidity, giant cockroaches, and a corrupt government.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.
Are we really going to accept the situation where the government of Lithuania has more power over our trading relationship with the Commonwealth than our government does? That is the reality of the customs union.
The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be true that it’s easier for the central bank to guard its independence from political pressure when it mainly holds government securities.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.
Erosion of faith and trust in government – that is the real problem that confronts us.
Just when we need a strong government, what do we see? Division. Chaos. And failure. No credible plan for Brexit, no solution to prevent a hard border in Ireland and no majority in Parliament for the Chequers proposals.
If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.
The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal.
It is important to realize that gold and silver are international commodities and that, therefore, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign coins are perfectly capable of serving as standard moneys.
