Government Quotes

I have a hands-off policy when it comes to my larynx.

Jeffrey Donovan

The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai.

Elliott Abrams

Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to build there.

Elliott Abrams

People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.

Elliott Abrams

Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation's university system, their marriages are not recognized and their cemeteries and holy places have been desecrated. It is government policy to incite h...

Elliott Abrams

The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror.

Elliott Abrams

The Erdogan government's first major step outside of the U.S. alliance was during the Bush Administration, when it wouldn't let Washington use Turkey as a launching ground for U.S. troops entering Iraq in 2003.

Elliott Abrams

Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.

Elliott Abrams

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and...

Eric Alterman

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

Eric Alterman

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.

Eric C. Anderson

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Edmund Burke

Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.

Edward Bond

I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.

Ella R. Bloor

My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have instructed the population in the occupied Netherlands to help them.

Els Borst

Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.

Ezra Taft Benson

In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.

Emanuel Celler

People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.

Eric Cantor

Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. ...

Eric Cantor

You know, plenty of people headed off to Canada or America on the basis of government information, propaganda campaigns. Often you'd go off with a brochure in hand and you'd turn up and it wouldn't be like that at all.

Emma Donoghue