Quotes of: Government-power Keyword

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

Xenophon

We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

Zoe Lofgren

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Benjamin Disraeli

Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.

Peter Garrett

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

John F. Kennedy

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Denis Diderot

But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

Jack Markell

If the government did a good job of publicizing this information, my products wouldn't sell.

Matthew Lesko

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

William Weld

I think the Chinese government is doing a great job right now.

Alex Chiu

I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures.

Anatoly Chubais

I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.

Andrew Cuomo

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

Al Franken

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

Alexander Herzen

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

Al Sharpton

The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.

Andy Sawford

I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.

Arlen Specter

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Well, it's very clear that the Arab population is rising because they'd like to have a say in the running of their affairs, running of their government, and this is very legitimate.

Al-Waleed bin Talal