Quotes of: United-states-government Keyword

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Herbert Hoover

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

Harold MacMillan

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

George Dennison Prentice

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Constitutional Code; For the Use All Nations and All Governments Professing Liberal Opinions Volume 1

Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of ...

The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they c...

The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.

Monica Crowley

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.

Albanian

It is easy to govern a kingdom but difficult to rule one's family.

Chinese

You can do nothing about governments and winter.

Slovenian

When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the oth...

Rudolf Arnheim

Jesus said that we should render to the state what properly belongs to the state, and though he had taxes in mind, we might reasonably infer that giving the state the job of punishing wrongdoers is one way of giving the state its due.

Lewis B. Smedes

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

Nong Duc Manh

Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night.

Pauline Frederick

I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.

Romola Garai

If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.

Kevin Rudd

The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.

Michelle Bachelet