Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Carter

Recount or no recount, there's going to be a government without a strong mandate or much flexibility.

Sitaram Yechury

Parliament has to urgently and immediately take up the issue. It is up to the government to see how they do it. Parliament will have to enact the law. Eventually, even it (ordinance) will have to come to parliament.

Samir Acharya

Suddenly, the government of India has taken a very keen interest in these far-flung islands.

Kathleen Blanco

State government must work leaner but smarter than ever before,

Roger Launius

Our position would be that it is, and always has been, government property.

Takeo Hiranuma

Our task is to make sure the government does not submit the bill.

Barry Goldwater

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

B. R. Ambedkar

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

B. F. Skinner

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

David Hockney

Someone has to speak up. It's a serious subject because really the subject is liberty.

Michael Rosen

On the Statue of Liberty it says, 'Give me your tired, your hungry, your poor yearning for liberty' and that's why we're here.

Lord Shaftesbury

Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

Ludwig von Mises

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Ludwig von Mises

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Ayn Rand

I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.

Ayn Rand

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

Ayn Rand

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Ayn Rand

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

Jacques Chirac

reflection, which I shall devote to explaining to my fellow citizens what my feelings are on this crisis and the means to remedy it.

Bob Taft

Recent, severe increases in gasoline prices in my state are, to say the least, baffling. Our citizens are demanding, if not complete answers, at least some rational justification for this dramatic price increase.

Randall Terry

Our policies are immoral. This has nothing to do with helping the citizens of China. This has to do with fattening the wallets of American big business.

Wayne Gray

Our quality of life of our citizens is impacted by the tourism economy that we have,

Jim Turner

Ordinary citizens have to look at their income as opposed to their expenses and determine where they're going to make cutbacks, ... They just decided they needed more money and raised taxes.

Charles Albert Gobat

Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.

Sam Veda

Peace and prosperity prevails when citizens are law abiding.

Robert Stewart

Our only intent was the safety of the survivors and the citizens of this state.

Bertie Ahern

Such a proposal would show citizens the EU was working in their interests.