A Quote by Chuck Hagel

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

Chuck Hagel

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Chuck Hagel
American - Politician
Born: October 4, 1946

Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments.... And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part.

Leo Tolstoy

Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, facing deeply imperfect choices - so it's not surprising that they're getting imperfect results.

Jake Sullivan

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

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

Samantha Power

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals and can create institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source by their very nature is in the people. The people have to bear their own responsibilities. There is no method by which that burden can be shifted to the government. It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.

Calvin Coolidge

As I write in 2012 we certainly do not believe that it is over yet, and the worst may be yet to come. Efforts by governments to solve the underlying problems responsible for the crisis have still not gotten very far, and the 'stress tests' that governments have used to encourage optimism about our financial institutions were of questionable thoroughness.

Robert J. Shiller

If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.

Alfred Stieglitz

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

David S. Goyer

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

Haruki Murakami

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.

Kathie Lee Gifford

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

Joyce Meyer

To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.

George Soros

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

Leo Tolstoy

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

Bella Abzug

People aren't meant to be perfect. We're all imperfect people looking for perfect moments to share with other imperfect people.

Shaun Hutchinson

My observation on most people in national governments is that they have very little interest in and very little knowledge of the multinational institutions.

James Wolfensohn

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