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In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.
Benjamin Franklin

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James A. Garfield

People don't start wars, governments do.
Ronald Reagan

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan

Seemingly from the dawn of man all nations have had governments; and all nations have been ashamed of them.
G. K. Chesterton

Governments never learn. Only people learn.
Milton Friedman

It's something we need to talk about in our community, governments and private businesses.
Julia Patterson

Some governments who had been in power previously had attempted to accomplish this and we want to see it get done.
Ratu Epeli Ganilau

European governments have little interest in revealing these (CIA) activities that are covert.
Joanne Mariner

Hopefully this will be information that will be fed into the budget process not only for governments, but also for charities.
Dan Ray

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
John Perry Barlow

The public will be shocked that so many rich governments have given so little.
Phil Bloomer

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
I. F. Stone

I think that is guilty of some latter-day colonialism in the way they approach such governments.
Charles Clarke

This is the third consecutive year China has achieved government's goal of employment and re-employment targets.
Hu Xiaoyi

Our culture defines us as an independent nation. So it's troubling that it is barely on this government's radar.
Stephen Waddell

It is a crisis for individuals, families, communities, agencies, and governments across the country.
Robert Mcswain

It is clear now the European governments do not have a common position on what to do when they are haunted by political Islam.
Richard Whitman

I feel strongly that people should be able to choose how they spend their entertainment dollars. It's none of the government's business.
Jesse Ventura

We've decided to reject the two new commissioners who have been appointed to execute the government's ploy to rig votes in the next general election.
Abdul Jalil

The government's actions have undermined the credibility and authority of the AU at a time when it is meeting in the Sudanese capital.
Kolawole Olaniyan

Our job is to prevent crime, not to investigate drug trafficking. That's the federal government's responsibility.
Ricardo Rodriguez

A mistrial is generally good for the defendant because he's gotten a look at the government's case. This case is going to be the exception to the rule.
Frank Razzano

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

Most may have already factored-in improved economic data, starting with government's firm thrust to balance the budget.
Grace Cerdenia

I'm a believer in local control, and this allows local governments to decide for themselves if it's worth a try.
Sen. Dave Aronberg

The local governments are responsible to their taxpayers. They're responsible to industry.
Cynthia Covell

Governments must pledge to the fund now, before the next emergency occurs.
Greg Puley

There is some safety in numbers from the government's perspective.
Kirby Behre

It's a cautionary tale. V says people should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people. That is the essence of the story.
Joel Silver

Clark and Cullen have proven they are good at making governments work. No one will be in a hurry to call an early election.
Cameron Bagrie

This is an area of extreme interest for a number of governments across Europe.
Andrew Witty

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.
Paul Martin

We're going to be in there leading the way and we hope the governments will be there participating with us.
Steve Plice

We agree with the government's assessment.
Tom White

All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.
Frank Herbert

Governments need to create a positive business environment so industry can do the most effective work that it can.
Benson Whitney

There is a requirement for the state governments to pull their weight.
Mukesh Haikerwal

Our only power is political embarrassment with governments that are reluctant to cooperate with us.
Sarah Ludford

Our win was the constitutional right of the defendant to have access to the witnesses even though they are across the sea. The government's win is that don't have to produce them, and they don't have to dismiss the case.
Alan Yamamoto

It's going to be challenging on both the government's and competing teams' sides to meet the schedule.
Richard Saunders

Some of the members of that family were terrorists, so, I understand the government's concern.
Clayton Ruby

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.
Tommy Douglas

There is a real danger that the competitive disadvantage caused by this measure will frustrate the government's ambition of making the U.K. the best place to trade electronically by 2002.
Chris Humphries

All we want is for this thing to be truthful. It is not truthful now. It is deceptive. It is designed to destroy governments.
Danny Thompson

It is very dangerous for this country to condone the overthrow of democratically elected governments.
David Leavy

We fully respect the government's concerns about terrorism. That does not mean, however, that the constitution disappears at the border.
Christopher Dunn

The region is willing to work with tribal governments.
Joe Nunez

There used to be an iron law that governments won or lost elections on the strength of the economy.
Richard Shaw

If you look at other communist governments, when has policy changed? It's always with new leadership.
Nicholas Eberstadt

This just the beginning. There are many governments that are interested in this.
Tim Wu

The government's ability to fight back may be weakened.
Christopher Garman

Both federal governments let us down - there doesn't seem to be any sense of urgency.
Janet Napolitano

The charge that the department has divulged information to foreign governments or encouraged foreign governments to take legal action is completely false.
Michael Gordon

There's nothing the government's been doing that's remotely unsustainable.
Mark Weisbrot

I have not yet seen a final draft of the new government's guidelines, but we will not compromise on ours.
Avigdor Lieberman

I think the intriguing thing in the afternoon was the chief judge led the charge [against the government's case] on some of these issues.
William Kovacic

We're prepared to begin a process of dialogue to determine how our two governments can work together on a common agenda.
Thomas Shannon

This has generated tremendous amounts of additional funds to local governments.
Darryl Paulson

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
Hebbel

The thought that... I would say anything on the euro other than what's the government's position is absolutely barmy.
Denis Macshane

The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.
Bob Brown

The government's emphasis is really misplaced, ... Each and every year we become more dependent upon imports. Demand is exceeding supply.
Bill Greehey

It is very important for us if all weapons, ammunition and explosives, as well as illegal groups are eliminated. And we must get the government's confirmation on it before we go.
Pieter Feith

Asian governments are making significant progress in the fight against poverty.
Ifzal Ali

This is the way the government apologizes. I view this letter as the government's apology to Richard Jewell.
Colin Wood

These arrest warrants are only a first step. If the warrants are to mean anything, governments must act now to arrest the accused.
Richard Dicker

They were isolated. It was every man for himself. It wasn't a good situation and it did not help the community as a whole, so the Chamber of Commerce developed a council of governments.
Lucy Ivins

Without any limits on the government's eminent domain power, every home, church, or corner store.
Scott Bullock

To get eight U.N. agencies with completely different missions and three governments to get a consensus on something was astounding.
Fred Mettler

Governments are either going to have to cut spending by that much or they are going to have to increase property taxes to make up the difference.
Jackie Nytes

To a growing degree, it is not governments, but rather quite different forces that decide the fate of humankind.
Georg Henrik Von Wright

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
Ludwig Von Mises

I do tell governments we're selling you a Trojan horse.
Nicholas Negroponte

We criticize the policies because we saw the results in Argentina's crisis in 2001 and the fall of various democratic governments in the region.
Nestor Kirchner

The culture is the hardest to address. That's the belief that the government will support and bail them out. Across the region, governments are getting bailout burnout.
Peter Harbison

The Government's only shot at convictions is to simplify this case.
Robert Mintz

We can only make recommendations. It's then up to the governments to decide what next to do.
Bob Aldrich

People are strongly against the government's selling of state enterprises.
Sukbir Khanijoh

That should happen as soon as the two governments agree.
Bhairaja Panday

These cuts will bring devastation to the delivery of vocational courses, apprenticeships and adult learning, seriously undermining the government's skills agenda.
Mark Serwotka

It would be difficult for us to argue against the government without a reasonable disclosure of the documents. We can't prove our case without access to the government's rationale.
James Fetig

When other countries seem to be able to move forward in that area, I think Canadians expect to see their governments to be able to do the same thing.
Bob Rae

Those type of attacks affect more left-wing governments. When you have a left-wing government agenda for peace with the Arabs and you get hit in your face, it's effective.
Gideon Doron

A good chunk of the government's revenue comes from the businesses that have been destroyed.
Johnson Honimae

I'm more interested in the human condition than in governments and the politics they do.
Rafi Pitts

We share the Government's goal of affordable broadband for all New Zealanders.
John Goulter

We may have been the only state where something good came out of an attempt to make secret so much of the government's business.
Claire Ebel

The city governments don't really have that responsibility and there really isn't money in the budget.
Tom Dale

His dismissal is within the government's competence.
Volodymyr Lytvyn

We should accept that the Government?s image has been badly destroyed and be prepared to pay heavily to redeem it.
Mutahi Kagwe

We welcome the government's willingness to resume negotiations.
Bud Perrone

The bank is extremely committed to working with the governments that are serious about improving good governance.
Gobind Nankani

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
Richard Stallman

Minority governments have to accept co-operation with somebody on ideas other than their own. If the government is able to do that there may be some basis for discussion.
Kelly Lamrock

State and local governments are caught in a local bidding war. The only losers are the taxpayers.
Peter Enrich

I've told the governments that our price will float and go down over time.
Nicholas Negroponte

Governments may be forced to impose a Monsanto tax on every bushel of soy sold.
David Macdonald

We are hopeful that the two governments will be able to reach an agreement in the near future that will be beneficial to U.S. cement producers and their workers.
Joe Dorn

The British and American governments are about to destroy all hopes for peace anywhere in our world for ever. This war has already begun.
Vanessa Redgrave

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.
Tim Roth

Things are so chaotic down there that governments are asking people to stop sending items.
Judy White

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
Wangari Maathai

Our respective governments have very different visions for the hemisphere.
Tom Shannon

The state, county, and local governments here really don't support us that well.
Herb Landau

Even though governments have been attacking tobacco companies, there's still a hard core of smokers.
David Liston

A lot of governments would love to have an industry come in that would generate that kind of income.
Robert Crowder

According to the current constitution, the local governments have no power and depend fully on the central government.
Muhammad Kamal

I appreciate the response by many local governments to the initiative.
Mao Qun'an

Governments are failing to respond to an emergency appeal. They must put their hands in their pockets and pay their fair share.
Jo Leadbeater

President Bush believes that hurricanes, floods and earthquakes don't discriminate on the basis of religion and that government's response to them should not either.
Jim Towey

Governments are saying that 5 percent of gasoline must be replaced by ethanol, which is a huge amount. Where is it going to come from?
Sam Tilley

Monitoring what American citizens do in their own homes on their own time with their own money is not the federal government's business.
Radley Balko

There's the feeling that there's a lot of hands-off approach from the government's side, and that they should be actively involved.
Ronnie Mamba

This is what both governments wanted. Both parties seem to have confidence in the U.S. ability to deliver a solution.
Matt Bryden

The policy of the central government, however, is only a good start. The accomplishment depends on local governments' determination and efforts.
Pu Xingzu

This is a significant step in the government's effort to solve these crimes and to get at the activities of the E.L.F. and the A.L.F..
Emily Langlie

We're urging governments to stop getting these old aircraft.
Elijah Hingosso

We will be there to protest the government's provocations.
Effi Eitam

The big boys, corporations and governments, have far more reason to be interested and concerned this time.
Eben Moglen

The government's decision to build 3,000 additional housing units in Ariel is an expression of our desire to strengthen the settlement blocs.
Zeev Boim

The government's approach is more active.
Zhong Nanshan

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