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...

I am confident we will succeed in forming the national unity government that all Iraqis are hoping for.

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate’er is best administered is best.

Well, then he would be at war with the government, and death was an unfortunate side effect of any revolution. Change always had a price tag. But once he took over, the people would realize...

The gross evil of our time defies all labels.

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies...

Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.

Governments are too stupid to understand that too much red tape does not bind a nation together—it tears it apart.

Wir werden als abhängige Bürger geboren. Vom Moment unserer Geburt an sind wie Abhängige. Ein Zeichen dieser Abhängigkeit ist die Geburtsurkunde. […] Entweder erhälst du die staatliche Urkunde […], was dir zu einer Identität verhilft,...

Our views concerning Iran are very well known by this time, and we have communicated to the Indian government our concerns about gas pipeline cooperation between Iran and India,

if we could tax Americans’ cognitive dissonance we could balance the budget. The American people want all kinds of incompatible things, they’re human beings, and they want high services, low taxes, and an omnipresent, omniprominent...

I think the government could do much better.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

The government will present its resignation after the performance of the oath and I will ask it to continue carrying out its work until the formation of the new government,

[And conversely, Woodrow Wilson finishes dead last.]Yes […] I think World War I was avoidable for the United States, certainly; we kind of look back on Germany as being evil (because of World War II),...

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries...

For the American people, Katrina is one of the biggest symbols that this government doesn’t work for their interests.