Quotes of: Labour-government Keyword

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

Chauncey Depew

Governments are just large corporations, and large corporations are just small governments.

Joel T. McGrath

Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

George Clooney

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.

Grover Norquist

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

George Osborne

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

Hugo Black

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

Hugo Chavez

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

John Adams

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

Winston S. Churchill

I gather," he added, "that you've never had much time to study the classics?" "That is so." "Pity. Pity. You've missed a lot. Everyone should be made to study the classics, if I had my way." Poirot shrugged his shoulders. " , I have got on very well ...

The Labours of Hercules

It is easier to govern a country than a son.

Chinese

Who can't pretend cannot govern.

French

Only fools are glad when governments change.

Romanian

If peace reigns in the land, a nun can govern it.

Tibetan

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. Society promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, government negatively by restraining our vices. Society encourages intercourse. Government creates distinctions.

Common Sense

I’m for a big government. A big government contraction.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to...

Lawrence Wright

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.

Emmeline Pankhurst

What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to schools, and have access to medicine and hospitals. Government may not directly provide these public goods and services, but gov...

Mo Ibrahim

The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it's ...

Spencer Abraham

We shouldn't just consider the desire of government to do what it wants to do. We should always consider the resistance of people. The culture of Iranian people doesn't let the government drag people into deep trouble or backlash. Maybe government wa...

Shirin Ebadi