All Quotes

Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
‐‐ John Philip Sousa

Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you doing for us' debate. For the black community, that's a debate that's been raging at least as far back as the W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington philosophical grudge matches.
‐‐ John Ridley

Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publicly and willingly; it's about collecting the information you don't think you're sharing at all, such as the online searches you do on search engines... or private emails or text messages... or the location of your mobile phone at any time.
‐‐ Mikko Hypponen

Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families.
‐‐ Kim Campbell

Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
‐‐ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is science in India and the country as a whole that will suffer.
‐‐ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'
‐‐ John McAfee

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
‐‐ Bianca Jagger

Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed.
‐‐ Dwight Schultz

Governments are not always right.
‐‐ Jose Manuel Barroso

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
‐‐ Ralph Steadman

Governments are out of control, irresponsible, never have enough money, never tighten their own belts, and when they are forced to, they always threaten to shut down police departments and teachers and all these things.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

Governments are run by people. People can be bad.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura

Governments are scared of software.
‐‐ Jon Evans

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Governments at all levels and the whole society should act more vigorously to protect the land our lives depend on.
‐‐ Li Keqiang

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?
‐‐ Kent Conrad

Governments can no longer control 100 percent of the story. Time and geographical boundaries disappear. In places like China and all over the Middle East, social-media outlets are being used to expose and hold accountable public officials that don't want to be held accountable for corruption and human rights abuses.
‐‐ Amy Jo Martin

Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.
‐‐ Jairam Ramesh

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

Governments clash with each other over who should control the co-ordination of the Internet's infrastructure and critical resources.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Governments do not have the answers - indeed, quite the reversal. A lot of times, they not only do not have the answers, but they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.
‐‐ Betty Williams

Governments don't control people like they used to.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
‐‐ Malcolm Turnbull

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.
‐‐ Peter Senge

Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

Governments follow their people. A great deal has to do with the vision of the leadership of governments. They have a vision, and they translate that to their people and to their counterparts in other countries. You can fulfill and achieve a great deal if you get along well as individuals, as people, as persons.
‐‐ Salman Khurshid

Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.
‐‐ Sean MacBride

Governments have a unique opportunity to incentivise corporations so that they can accelerate their evolution to a more sustainable economy through more sustainable practices and products.
‐‐ Jochen Zeitz

Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.
‐‐ Richard Eyre

Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade Organization or NAFTA, which are disabling governments' ability to protect the rights of their own people.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
‐‐ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Governments in countries across the world have a duty to do everything possible to keep the public safe from terrorist attacks.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.
‐‐ Mario Draghi

Governments must ensure that the power of blogs is cultivated and implemented in collaborative ways, with a view to preserve peace and human dignity.
‐‐ Nayef Al-Rodhan

Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.
‐‐ Pauline Hanson

Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction.
‐‐ Henry W. Kendall

Governments need to be authorized to provide 'open bank assistance.' The convolutions of Dodd-Frank aimed at 'avoiding' this tactic are ludicrous and will prove to be extremely costly to the system.
‐‐ Paul Singer

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
‐‐ Voltaire

Governments never learn. Only people learn.
‐‐ Milton Friedman

Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.
‐‐ Frances O'Grady

Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
‐‐ J. Paul Getty

Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers.
‐‐ James Buchan

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.
‐‐ Jaron Lanier

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Governments should look at investment in broadband as a national priority on the grounds that having broadband access for virtually everyone creates opportunities for the development of the economy that wouldn't otherwise be available.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.
‐‐ Henry Bonilla