Quotes of: United-states-government Keyword

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

Tony Blair

I do not believe we should shut down the federal government.

Ted Cruz

Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government participation. We are answerable to our shareholders.

Alexei Mordashov

People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.

Carl Paladino

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

Doris Lessing

I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

Ferdinand Marcos

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

Garet Garrett

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

George Michael

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

Gerrit Smith

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

William Henry Harrison

Everything is temporary. Well, except government programs.

Brooke Bida

The Islamic State or The State of Islam are the titles under which ISIS and the like are committing their evil deeds and legalizing their crimes. Oddly, there are no such titles through the history of political Islam; we have heard of an Omayyad Empi...

Dismantling ISIS

In other words, they appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which they require protection. To be protected from violence by the nation-state is to be exposed to the violence wielded by the nation-state, so to rely on...

Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?

This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret dip...

Slavoj Zizek

..Thus it can be said that ‘Human Rights’ is an ever expanding subject, which grows in leaps and bounds with the evolution of knowledge, development of the society and the advancement of the world at large, thereby encompassing within its ambit n...

Henrietta Newton Martin

When spiders' webs unite, they can tie up a lion.

Ethiopian

Even a fool can govern if nothing happens.

German

Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience...

Writings: Autobiography/Notes on the State of Virginia/Public & Private Papers/Addresses/Letters

No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.

Jim Wallis

The State Energy Program, it provides grants to States and directs funding to State energy offices. The States use these grants to address their energy priorities, program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies.

Rosa DeLauro