All Quotes

Governments should want and even crave the best possible scientific advice. With reliable knowledge come better decisions, fewer mistakes and more results achieved for each pound spent.
‐‐ Geoff Mulgan

Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.
‐‐ John McAfee

Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
‐‐ Naveen Jain

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan

Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.
‐‐ Geoff Mulgan

Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of.
‐‐ Armando Iannucci

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.
‐‐ J. C. Watts

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.
‐‐ Chief Joseph

Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law.
‐‐ Zack de la Rocha

Governor Kempthorne of Idaho, our chairman of the National Governors Association, is doing a great job bringing all of the nation's governors together to work as partners with the federal government.
‐‐ James Douglas

Governor Palin leans far closer to 'spokesperson' than representative of the people.
‐‐ Adam McKay

Governor Perry taught me how to be a good man and to be a good husband. Not only does he have to take care of his own family, but the state of Texas.
‐‐ Marcus Luttrell

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

Governor Romney has a record of tremendous accomplishments. But he never asks for accolades. He just asks, 'How can I help?' That's the mark of a true leader: A humble focus on getting the job done.
‐‐ Reince Priebus

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.
‐‐ Jason Chaffetz

Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol

Governor Romney is a good debater.
‐‐ Jim Talent

Governor Romney is a real hardliner on illegal immigration.
‐‐ Mario Diaz-Balart

Governor Scott Walker didn't know who he was messing with when he picked a fight with the hard-working union folks of Wisconsin. He must have forgotten that Wisconsin is the Badger State. And badgers are scrappy little creatures. We may look cute, warm and fuzzy, but we have a fighting spirit.
‐‐ Gwen Moore

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?
‐‐ Sean Hannity

Governors, all things being equal, I'd rather have a governor in the White House than somebody that's not had that experience.
‐‐ Matt Mead

Governors compete. States compete. People & businesses decide.
‐‐ Doug Ducey

Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.
‐‐ Bill Delahunt

Governors sometimes have a hard time jumping up on a table and yelling the loudest because they've actually been there. They realize it's difficult to govern in a split environment.
‐‐ Bill Haslam

GPS is expensive because it is a very slow communication channel - you need to communicate with three or four satellites for an extended duration at 50 bits per second.
‐‐ Robert Love

GPS's battery draining behavior is most noticeable during the initial acquisition of the satellite's navigation message: the satellite's state, ephemeris, and almanac.
‐‐ Robert Love

GPS works great. I recommend it for all cat owners who want to know what their cats do when they're not there, if you can stand the ridicule from your friends.
‐‐ Caroline Paul

'GQ,' you've been patiently and stylishly educating me forever. To be truly stylish, you have to be kind and courteous.
‐‐ Douglas Booth

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.
‐‐ Arthur Ransome

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
‐‐ Zora Neale Hurston

Grace can and does have a history.
‐‐ Karl Rahner

Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives us unmerited favor through Jesus Christ, and since Adam and Eve, our lives have depended on it.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

Grace is above praise and blame. I never read the bad stuff people write, but I never read the good stuff, either. Ever. I know who I am, and I know that God looks down on me and smiles. I know that - without a shadow of a doubt.
‐‐ Suze Orman

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.
‐‐ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
‐‐ Jonathan Edwards

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
‐‐ Karl Rahner

Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.
‐‐ Arthur Hugh Clough

Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.
‐‐ Max Lucado

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
‐‐ Joseph Joubert

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.
‐‐ Pope Francis

Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.
‐‐ Brennan Manning

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
‐‐ Friedrich Schiller

Grace is the divine assistance or heavenly help each of us desperately needs to qualify for the celestial kingdom. Thus, the enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.
‐‐ David A. Bednar

Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.
‐‐ Tullian Tchividjian

Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.
‐‐ Tullian Tchividjian

Grace Jones was an influence, because I was like, 'These shoulders! These pants! Girls can wear pants and be awesome.' That's something I definitely embody.
‐‐ Lorde

Grace Kelly is my main inspiration, for her timeless beauty. I like Jennifer Lawrence for her fun, down-to-earth style, and Taylor Swift is always elegant.
‐‐ Gracie Gold