They [the government] has been attacking our people, who are conducting a peaceful march in show of support for the judges.

It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

A real patriot doesn’t unconditionally stick up for his government—he stands up for freedom.

Everybody says that I have a lot of power. But what does that power consist of?… Can I influence governments? I am beginning to be able to…” (1995)

We do hope that there can shortly be a government of national unity and that the installation of the government can contribute to greater stability in the country.

Chip testers led a technical rebound on the government allowing them to invest in China, as their overseas competitors already invest in China.

The Chinese government and people have been committed to safeguarding peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits, and will make the utmost efforts with the utmost sincerity to achieve the country’s peaceful reunification,

My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood. The ’80s were about acquiring — acquiring wealth, power, prestige....

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us,...

In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it...

History is full of religious wars; but, we must take care to observe, it was not the multiplicity of religions that produced these wars, it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought...

We’re supposed to strive for harmony, and that’s what the art of tea is supposed to accomplish… but harmony is very, very difficult to achieve in this country. Tea ceremony is powerless. But it’s also...

If you hand over these people, you would contribute to undermining the regime. The Syrian government might think that sanctions are a better alternative at the end of the day.

The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party’s government.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

I want to see the openness of county government become institutionalized. If it is institutionalized, it is very difficult to take backwards steps. Open government extends beyond the concept of letting the public know what...

We believe AT&T violated the law by providing the communications of its clients to the government without warrants, which is prohibited by federal law.

The Cuban government is taking charge of the situation. We are standing down.

I have not asked anybody so far to form the government but we are leading towards contacts and consultations with all the blocs in parliament. Of course, I am going to ask the majority party...

When foreign investors enter Vietnam, they must follow the country’s labor rules. If they don’t, the Vietnamese government has the responsibility to enforce the law or expel the company. The government has to protect the...

We’re still a long way from agreeing on a government.

On a basic level, he had seen first-hand how his government used the element of fear to accomplish its objectives; the same element of fear that had been used as an excuse to engage its...

The Alberta government is not Santa Claus and we’re not talking about a sack of toys,

The Ethiopian government is violently suppressing any form of protest and punishing suspected opposition supporters.

We’ve got this weird dysgenic situation where we’re basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.

A tyrant has uncommon moral compass.

The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.

Mr. Speight undermined the democratic process. The government has been incapacitated, illegally.

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

That’s the problem with this whole country. Fucking vast prosperity. No one has any real problems anymore. Ninety percent of the damn politicians in this town either think there’s no war on terror, or if...

A National Government cannot create good times. It cannot make the rain to fall, the sun to shine, or the crops to grow, but it can, by pursuing a meddlesome policy, attempting to change economic...

The history of our country has taught us, above all, the virtue of patience. It will be many generations before we can have the conditions we seek.

We hold the Israeli government fully responsible. This will lead to more violence and bloodshed.

I think we might have a slight degree of difference in the degree of aggressiveness in certain government bodies such as EPA and NHTSA. But overall, even in a Bush administration, environmental regulations are going...

In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system,non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor,judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush’sorder calls this Soviet-style abomination ‘a...

The provisions that are a problem are those that minimize judicial scrutiny of searches and surveillance and that increase government secrecy,

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on...

I think that this government will be the shortest government even in the history of Israeli, … We will, from the very beginning, act in order to bring it down and to have early elections...

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary...

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

I think it is fair to say that both the U.S. government and the Ukrainian government share a common concern and a dedication to acting to prevent or to find out and prevent cases of...

Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way– to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes....

When the federal government would actually save millions of dollars by forgoing the status quo and actually sending evacuees on a luxurious six-month cruise it is time to rethink how we are conducting oversight. A...

Nobody in the government said hard evidence. We said we have concerns.

The Australian Wheat Board refused to quote to the government of Iraq prices on FOB basis and consequently they lost out. Iraq will buy one million tons of wheat in the coming days from American...

This book (Jarod Kintz’s book) is trash. I mean, I assume it is, because that’s where I found it while scrounging for lunch. However, I must admit that I haven’t read it. I would have,...

Ukiipenda sana nchi yako ni rahisi sana kuichukia serikali yake!

In the colonial countries, on the contrary, the policeman and the soldier, by their immediate presence and their frequent and direct action maintain contact with the native and advise him by means of rifle butts...