Quotes of: Government-control Keyword

If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.

Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.

Pat Robertson

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Walter Lippmann

War is just one more big government program.

Joseph Sobran

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

Mitch Daniels

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

Darrell Issa

If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to interv...

Joseph Sobran

The mind would rather fret about the future or pine over the past — so the mind can cling to its own illusion of control. But the current moment? It cannot be controlled. And what a mind can’t control, it tends to discount. Brush past ... over. I...

One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Grace

Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.

Venus in Arms

A lot of the moves I make originate from futsal. It's played in a very small space, and the ball control is different in futsal. And to this day my ball control is pretty similar to a futsal player's control.

Ronaldinho

Just when you think you've got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who's controlling, you can't control it. Of course, I don't think I'm controlling, but that's what I've been told!

Michelle Pfeiffer

In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

Gary Hamel

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

Tom Tancredo

The fact that rape threats are a thing says a lot about how rape isn't a lapse in self-control but often a tool to punish & control others.

Life

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

Ronald Reagan

We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

John Pilger

Justice is the object of government, and those who support the government, must be agreed as to the justice to be executed by it, or they cannot rightfully unite in maintaining the government itself.

Lysander Spooner

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

Mackenzie King

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

Richard M. Daley

As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.

James Hansen

Here’s what I believe. We have control over ourselves at every single moment. We don’t control the world. We don’t control other people (or at least, we shouldn’t.) But we are in control of our experience at all times.

How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human