Quotes of: Government-power Keyword

The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.

Gilles Deleuze

They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.

Nancy Pelosi

The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.

Stephen Kinzer

I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.

Scott McClellan

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.

Tony Snow

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

Kent Conrad

The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.

Lysander Spooner

We measure everything - why not governance?

Mo Ibrahim

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

Richard Perle

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

Richard Stallman

Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.

Marianne Williamson

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Nicolas Chamfort

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

William Weld

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Louis D. Brandeis

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

Esther Dyson

A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.

Oliver Ellsworth

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Carter G. Woodson

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

Dexter Scott King