Quotes of: Government-programs Keyword

A lack of government oversight hasn't hindered the Internet. Quite the opposite. A hands-off approach is largely responsible for its fantastic growth and success.

Heather Brooke

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

Harold Pinter

As the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage.

Henry Paulson

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

Ida B. Wells

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

Jack Anderson

Simeon Weisz: Bullets change governments far surer than votes.

Lord of War

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Jose Saramago

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Vladimir Putin

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Daniel Webster

Governments at all levels and the whole society should act more vigorously to protect the land our lives depend on.

Li Keqiang

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

Beth Simone Noveck

Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.

Susan Cain

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Walter Bagehot

The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality.

Keith O'Brien

For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.

Amy Davidson

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Alexander Hamilton

An anarchist government somehow creates an impression in the hearts of citizens that no one cares.

Amit Kalantri

India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.

Anand Sharma

In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.

Ian Goldin