Government Quotes - Page 233

We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity

The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.

In the highest government office, you have to be ready to bow out at any time, otherwise you are not a free individual anymore.

In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.

Prior to and during [John] Locke's time, it was difficult to determine where religion or church left off and government or state began. The powers of both were often combined. As a result, churches frequently used the force of the state to promote and enforce their interests and doctrines. This caused horrendous atrocities against Jews and heretics, as well as the European religious wars between Catholics and Protestants of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that resulted in the deaths of millions of people.

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.

The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government.

It would be a big favor to political discourse; to our ability to do our work here in Congress; and to the American people, to be able to talk with each other and have some faith in their government and, more importantly, in their future.

If President Obama really wants to hurt the Syrian government, don't send cruise missiles. He should send over some of his economic advisers.

Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the good of all. If wisdom governs our actions; but if the world is mad or foolish, it can destroy itself just when great advances and triumphs are almost without its grasp.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.

Based on my experience as a prosecutor in Miami, illegal immigration is one of the most critical issues facing this country. As a prosecutor, I felt the burden of it. I think what's important... is for the state and the federal government and for local governments to work together to do everything possible to control illegal immigration in a comprehensive way.

The media is supposed to be custodians of the facts and watchdogs of government. They have, for the most part, neglected to be either of those things.

Nations are political and military entities, and so are blocs of nations. But it doesn't necessarily follow from this that they are also the basic, salient entities of economic life or that they are particularly useful for probing the mysteries of economic structure, the reasons for rise and decline of wealth. Indeed, the failure of national governments and blocs of nations to force economic life to do their bidding suggests some sort of essential irrelevance.

But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.

When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.