Alan Greenspan Quotes, Government Quotes, Self Quotes

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

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Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Government Quotes , House Quotes

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

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Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Government Quotes , Want Quotes

All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Government Quotes

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Government Quotes , Should Have Quotes

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Government Quotes , Violence Quotes

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Government Quotes

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Military Quotes , Government Quotes

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Government Quotes , People Quotes

The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the race from Asia Minor was about as complete as such an act, on a scale so great, could well be.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Race Quotes , Government Quotes

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Liars Quotes , Government Quotes

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Reality Quotes , Government Quotes

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Government Quotes , People Quotes

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Government Quotes , Admitting Quotes

Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires - a wiretap requires a court order. [...] Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. [...]

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Government Quotes

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Government Quotes

Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how -- the nature of the government in which people live.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Government Quotes , People Quotes

The federal government and our democracy is not a speedboat. It's an oceanliner, as I discovered when I came into office. It took a lot of really hard work for us to make significant policy changes, even in our first two years, when we had larger majorities than Mr. Trump will enjoy when he comes into office.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Hard Work Quotes , Government Quotes

There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government. I reject that notion.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Government Quotes , Self Quotes

It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Reflection Quotes , Government Quotes