Top 1200 Parliamentary Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

If you are really interested in making government work, you should have the experience of working in government.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

I'm the first Thai prime minister in history that first time win half of parliament seats and second time win 76% of parliamentary seats and I was ousted because too popular.

My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms.

I've led a life working at every level of government, from Congress to local government.

They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes, that want of government, is any new kind of government.

The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world.

It isn't possible to give government just a little control over the economy and our lives. Once we cede that power to government, it uses the power to take more from us. That's why every year the government controls more of our lives.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

I would bring the government back to what it was intended to be - a plain economical government.

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

The role of the government is not to solve religious or sectarian or ethnic problems. These are age-old. I don't think any government of the day can solve all differences. But the government of the day can deliver to our citizens and show our citizens that they are equal in front of the law.

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation

If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty.

Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn't grow, then government suffers.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.

I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.

Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.

I have... submitted the resignation of the government, and I have declared that I will not be a candidate to head the (next) government.

Spiritual government means a pure government that doesn't discriminate on the lines of caste, creed, or religion.

Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now and then when I was in government, I would remind my associates that "When we start thinking of government as 'us' instead of 'them,' we've been here too long." By that I mean that elected officeholders need to retain a certain skepticism about the perfectibility of government.

If I was in government and running government, I think I would use the government data, because I wouldn't know where else to look, quite frankly. And if I didn't like that data, I would work hard to make sure it got better and better and better, whether it was at the state or local or federal level.

As every newspaper reader, liberal activist, or parliamentary junkie knows, the overarching barrier to most of Obama's agenda is the abuse of the filibuster in the Senate. In fact, several of Obama's second term priorities are not ideas in search of a majority - they are majorities in search of an up-or-down vote.

It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

We don't want our government building files on what people think about their government.

'Let's Move!' is not about having government tell people what to do, because government doesn't have all the answers.

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.

Government can't do everything, but there is a role for government and smart policy, especially in equalizing opportunities for folks.

One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.

ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.

Historically, it's very unusual after a change of government for the new government not to be returned.

I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

We need a lifetime ban on government officials lobbying for a foreign government.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

If the government decides to become a tyrannical government, our guns are to protect us against that.

Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government.

If people want consultative government, the price is increased complexity and delay in arriving at decisions. If they want speed of government, then they must accept a greater degree of authoritarianism. I suspect that the real answer is that most people prefer the latter so long, that is, as government's decisions conform with their own views.

The federal government, state governments will not do without that tax revenue from tobacco no matter what. I've always thought it was one of the most contradictory setups that we have, because everything said publicly about the product is intended to besmirch it, impugn it, and do the same thing to the people that use it. And yet here's the government scoring, I mean, you want to talk about obscene profits, the government doesn't do a damn thing but stick its hand in. The government taxes tobacco at every stage. It taxes tobacco when the farmer's thinking about planting it.

All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.

Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.

Republican government - self-government by the people - is at the heart of what it means to be free.

Government! Government! What do I get for all I give, I'd like to know! Potholes and bombs!

The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government.

It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

The Parliamentary Labour Party is a crucial and very important part of the Labour party, but it is not the entirety of the Labour Party.

I think it's perfectly possible for us to stay outside of power politics, or parliamentary politics, and speak about things like the American hegemony in the region or speak about the unjust war on terror that's been brought to our borders.

But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.

Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy with everything that happened with the parliamentary elections, and it was not exactly a perfect presidential election in Egypt.

People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.

We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.