Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

What I tried to make clear in Good Calories, Bad Calories was that nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the Second World War with the evaporation of the European community of scientists and...

Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the...

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O’Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O’Brien: You do not exist.

The American flag doesn’t give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It’s when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed...

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.

He’s the most talented diplomat in the Iranian government. He could make a difference in the nuclear negotiations.

We hope that after the protests the government … withdraws the text. There is no other solution.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone – as opposed to an ethical one – you know something is wrong.

There is beauty and power in unity.We must be united in heart and mind.One world, one people.

The Chinese government, in handling such complicated international disputes, opposes the arbitrary use of sanctions or the threat of use of sanctions in the efforts to solve the question. It will only complicate the issue.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

But the government strongly wants this trial to continue in Iraq,

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

Commerce tends toward rewarding inclusion, broadness, and liberality. Tribal loyalties, ethnic and religious bigotries, and irrational prejudices are bad for business. The merchant class has been conventionally distrusted by tribalist leaders — from the ancient...

We can’t come up with a reason why this information is being withheld. The government won’t even acknowledge that the incident took place but we know that it did.

No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for...

For that, we are in contact with the Israeli side to start direct negotiations with the government that will soon be formed.

Protestants are sickened at the sight of terrorists at the heart of our government. We will do everything we can to expel this cancer from the body politic.

I’m happy only because I know it’s something that keeps the government in the circle,

Government is all show when it isn’t murder in the dark … or soldiers in the open.

You look at the relationship between 50 state sovereigns and the federal government, and the states always come out on the short end of the stick. They’ve consistently traded autonomy for cash, and they’ve consistently...

Conservatives and those on the right are usually willing to settle for thinking themselves correct on political issues; those on the left have always needed to feel not so much that they are correct but...

One of the (many) problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is that we have been conditioned to tolerate corruption in power, and...

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as “armed teens”?

The priority for my government is that there will be development for everyone, equally.

They are using government vehicles and are being given GSU protection.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

If the President does not withdraw this idea for a Joint Mechanism, we will leave the government on June 16.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

To me, patriotism means dedication to the principles on which the country was founded and a willingness to stand firm and fight for these principles regardless of what the government says or does

Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.

We hope that the Israeli government will take into account that the torpedoing of the peace process, of the collapse of the peace process, will really harm not only the Palestinians, but also the Israelis...

But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of any other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the deeds of the parent who drained the spirit from his child? The...

The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.

When it comes to federal spending, George W. Bush is the boy who cant say no. In each of his three years at the helm, the president has warned Congress to restrain its spending appetites,...

Is that all, sir? Only we’ve got stuff to finish before our knocking-off time, you see, and if we stay late we have to make more money to pay our overtime, and if the lads...

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

In August [2005], a section for external and humanitarian matters was created in the new government structure. I was put in charge of that section, which included five or six ministries singled out in that...

It is your government which is seizing the people of Iraq and killing them. It is your government which is supporting the rotten governments in our countries.

When the competent men of the system are compelled to quit, the system will soon quit itself.

My definition of democracy is – A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without bloodshed. That is the real test. It is perhaps the severest...

All the parties that receive petrol revenue – including the oil companies, service stations and Government – need to be more accountable.

Government officials are still learning to trust the market mechanism. They are containing inflation, but you’re building up more and more distortions in the economy.

…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division.

…they say if you don’t vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.