Government Quotes - Page 375

You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.

People invest in companies in order to get a share of the profit that company will make. If the Government increases its share of the profits, potential profits, at the expense of the owners of the company, the shareholders, then that makes investment in that company less attractive.

The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact – based indeed on solid journalistic work.

Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

The fact is that the American government and NATO have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan. Their next targets will be Syria and Iran.

Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.

The American government must finally learn lessons from the past.

They should set a very clear priority for the government. There is such a large penumbra of issues. The party needs to come to grips with the reality that it has to be coherent politically.

It might take an act of God to convince some Americans that parts of their government are corrupt, but at the same time, you cannot, under any circumstances, persuade an Iranian that his government is not corrupt!

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.

Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.