Gridlock the government and defy the people.

Gregory Craig

The government doesn't want egg on its face by giving money, and then being pilloried by one group or another for giving it to this form and not that one.

Andrew George

The people want a secular government.

Roya Hakakian

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

Robert H. Jackson

If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.

Gerald R. Ford

We will also rally the international community and the South African government.

Alex Langwenya

In Peru things were different. If you went against the government, you could lose your job. You couldn't express yourself completely. In contrast, in this country you have freedom of expression.

Wendy Vasquez

This is a classic 'chicken and egg' problem that needs some government intervention and up-front investment to achieve a breakthrough.

Jim Watson

It's the fiscal balance of all levels of government combined that are really important.

David Dodge

We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God.

John Ashcroft

Defense and government contractors couldn't make anything inexpensive if their lives depended on it.

Alex Roland

The government will ensure that no food meant for hungry people is diverted.

Alfred Mutua

A Brazilian citizen was killed, and we believe that someone should be considered guilty, ... This case creates a situation in which the government and the family in Brazil must deserve some answers.

Manoel Gomes

We believe we should wait and see the composition of a new government and the policies of a new government before deciding what relationship to have with the new government.

Christina Gallach

The government does not take the agriculture crisis seriously.

Steve Webster

We do believe that the church has a visionary role for reconciliation, beyond that of any government.

Richard Harris

We shall see what the political arm of government does.

Daniel Shea

We don't have an approved budget yet. That doesn't come out until the government releases its budget.

Rick Perkins

This government can get things done when we put our minds to it. The real goal is that we institutionalize that in the police department.

Adrian M. Fenty

We are very disappointed by this unilateral action by the Venezuelan government.

Gina Laughlin

I believe it's absolutely crucial for us to maintain a strong voice in the national government.

Dennis Anderson

The Central government laboratory in Bhopal of Madhya Pradesh has confirmed the presence of bird flu there.

Uttam Khobragade

For all intents and purposes, our new strategic plan will become our application to the federal government.

Wayne Sanford

If the government has to buy back shares of those companies, the country will slip back into the period before the 1997 economic crisis.

Thanong Bidaya

This will fundamentally change the experience citizens have with government.

Tom Davies

I was afraid, like everyone there now is very afraid, and that's why the government continues to exist in that great theater that is living in Cuba.

Raul Rivero

By firing my assistant the board is undermining township government and the fiscal officer.

Lori Montag

Biggest competitor, Canada, through their government sites, to see what the farmers are getting this year to cut our throats.

Mark Porter

Oil companies that are in Bolivia will no longer have the freedom to set prices and export volumes. Now, it's the Bolivian government that's going to set them.

Carlos Villegas

I will not uphold a breach of international law or this undermining of the U.N. and will resign from the government.

Clare Short

I have contacted council members in northern Utah cities that use districting and asked them about it. They all said it was an effective form of government.

Jerry Campbell

There was a lot of frustration on all our parts. And hopefully our government will take a look so no American city will have to go through this.

Carl Griffith

If we had waited for the government to get us out of there, we would have died. It took the citizens there to get us help.

James Mitchell

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Federico Fellini

Was he dragged into criminal activity to which he was not predisposed, by a government overbearing his will?

James Comey

This is not something that county government can assume the full financial responsibility for.

Jane Halliburton

We need to make sure that in the federal government we have clear leadership.

Jeffrey Levi

It's not like they're not getting any redistribution from the government. We want less income redistribution, not more.

Dan Mitchell

Well, this is the federal government, and it has procedures that we go through.

James Young

But beyond economic development, I want to change the feeling this community has about our government. It's sad and it must be changed. It saddens me that the people of this community feel the way they do about us. That is the first thing I would try to accomplish as mayor.

Frank Coccho

This isn't what codes are set up for in government.

Judy Nadler

The government doesn't accept that journalists can have scoops.

Vincent Brossel

On our part we have given our assurance there will be no act of violence by the L.T.T.E. against government forces.

Anton Balasingham

The basic credibility of this government is really up for grabs and open for question without the Democrats doing anything but pointing a finger.

Doug Schoen

The government didn't present any case, they just wanted it to appear like they did.

Luis Posada Carriles

Since the (government) buyout came through, we're contracting out our tobacco. We're getting approximately $1.55 a pound this year where last year we got approximately $2 a pound.

Perry Neal

God and the U.S. government only knows.

Jamal Lewis

They [central government] did not pay the last time. We didn't get it.

Karl T. Reyes

The critical point is not our preparedness -- the critical point is the cooperation of the Government of Pakistan at the borders.

Ruud Lubbers

Are critical components of government communications systems.

Peter Thonis

All of us have a responsibility to advance God's will through government.

Ted Haggard

It's inevitable that the government will have to adjust the oil prices.

Thomas Rumbaugh

The government is deepening its crackdown in Ethiopia's rural areas, far from the eyes and ears of international observers.

Peter Takirambudde

The U.S. government is delusional with the idea that it can overthrow the Cuban revolution.

Felipe Perez Roque

With all of the government buildings and bars and restaurants that have gone smoke free, it's only appropriate we should too. Health care should have been first.

Ron Burks

Hopefully there will be some arrangement with the (State) Government in the meantime.

David Stanley

He is the Tory who can reach beyond the Tory tribe and take us back into government.

John Bercow

These transcripts do not say what the government says they say.

Michael Caruso

The only way we can be effective as a government is when we receive input from residents.

Bill Lilly

I think this creates further a credibility gap for the government, and it is certainly fortuitous this came out before final action is taken by Congress.

Bob Barr

The real focus is going to be on whether it's spent effectively. Obviously they (the government) feel that they have the capacity to do so.

Dennis Dykes

The federal government hasn't made any progress in figuring out the problem.

Joshua Slen

The faster decline in the GDP deflator could prompt government calls to forestall an early end to quantitative easing, but the data reflects balanced growth in the economy.

Hidenori Suezawa

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

Barry Goldwater

We are dealing with classified material we are about to disclose. The government is just covering its tracks here.

Stephanie Pell

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Susan Goldstein

It's not a case of FEMA not trying. It's not being able to — whenever we were talking to the federal government, we were not getting what we needed.

Bill Berry

Though we want to put an end to all sorts of problems through dialogue, the government is not interested in it.

Obaidul Quader

We want elections, but first we need good food. Even with a new government, will they do anything to help us?

Richard Vuadi

The Maoists are striking at the government with impunity now.

Kunda Dixit

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

Paul Hawken

There will always be people who do not want a fair and just government.

Charles Owens

This government has fallen short of its commitments to small business.

Judith Andrew

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey

The Jordanian government is following up on this incident with the concerned parties in Iraq.

Nasser Jawdeh

That's an important message because state government is so far off track.

Ron Saxton

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Alexis De Tocqueville

The federal government will do its part, ... but we couldn't sit by. This is a small part of helping out.

William Freeman

The request of the British government has been accepted.

Paolo Iorio

I walked out of the government to fight and put right what had gone wrong.

Dr Kizza Besigye

No government study has ever been completed on time and there's going to be no consequences if it's not. It's a split decision.

Frank O'donnell

There is an economic case for it (a bio-diesel plant), but only if the Government mandates bio-fuels.

Gary Monk

All government wars are unjust.

Murray Rothbard

The government has basically chased away all the people in that town. Golo is a ghost town. Everybody has left.

Gemmo Lodesani

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

Ambrose Bierce

We are seeing no action from our government, no action. We want to make sure that in this age, in 2006, no one is above the law.

Gabriel Pendas

Citizens of the United States expect their government to be there in times of disaster and they were not there.

Jane Bullock

Government has decided to set up 90 apni mandis at a cost of Rs 13.50 crore. It would be ensured that every assembly constituency gets one mandi.

Abdul Aziz Hakim

People don't realize what a severe law this is. It is brutal. It applies to everybody, even people who work for the government. There are no exceptions.

Theresa M. Gallion

Virtually every part of state government has had to find efficiencies.

Dan Mclagan

I have come here with a message of goodwill and friendship from the government and people of India for the government and people of Pakistan.

Natwar Singh

It's a rare occasion when we see government assessing and making government small.

Kathleen Dixon

We have been calling for the vaccine right from the beginning. We can't keep waiting for the government.

Auwalu Haruna

Either we emerge with a strong parliament and government or we have the collapse of the Palestinian Authority.

Salah Abdel Shafi

David Davis has the experience, the toughness required to lead the party back into government.

Andrew Mitchell

It almost seems that the government is following, not leading, with its mandate.

Paul Resnik

We won't accept the majority of rigid measures the government insists on.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

It's about time government got back to work.

Laura Schultz

I'm a believer that we do not have enough air on these miners to get them safely out of harm's way. That's what the government should be guaranteeing.

Joe Main

It's a problem for our allies when we continue to execute people. It's going to be a problem for our allies when a U.S.-supported government in Iraq executes people.

David Elliot

We are still contemplating what to do. But it is highly likely we will take government to court.

Vineet Rohatgi

This is going to have the opposite effect of what the U.S. government wants, since the demand for migrant smugglers is going to go up.

Victor Clark

We have expressed our position to the national assembly and to the leadership of the government.

Jose Aranaz

I call it a theocracy, where religion and government are fused into one. I think it's more of a theocracy now than it has ever been in my life.

Marla Selvidge

Individuals and families are due a refund, and that is exactly what we do with this legislation, ... Government is not automatically entitled to the surplus.

William Roth

The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.

Thaksin Shinawatra

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

James Mill

There is a reason for the rebels to make a move and for the government to try to prevent that.

Suliman Baldo

Eminent domain is not the end, it is the means — a tool the government uses for economic development.

Brad Thomas

If the federal government ends the peace by moving in to arrest these demonstrators, then it will be the responsibility of President Clinton, because he is the commander in chief.

Luis Gutierrez

It would be silly to say that everything is unchanged in the government. It is not so.

Igor Shabdurasulov

That's what we're looking for, hopefully less taxes and less government.

Bill Bunting

A victim of a corrupt government.

Robert Pickett

We have always had close communication and dialogue with the government. It is always a good thing for the government and the DAB to cooperate.

Ma Lik

The RCMP has the full support of the government to proceed forcefully.

Bernard Lord

The government has gone deaf. They are not listening to the people and this is a time for them to start listening.

Bruce Golding

If the government and the infrastructure is there, the technology is there today to go as far as we want to go with this.

Anne Stevens

If this happens, Iraq will stay under the control of armed camps. And the government will never control anything.

Judith Yaphe

Merkel will be a Christian-Democratic chancellor in a Social Democratic government.

Claus Leggewie

We see a push by government generally to collect more and more information about its citizens.

Murray Mollard

But it appears if the federal government had their way, they would not educate the masses, only those who can afford an education.

George Knox

Mr. Harper will receive a copy of the report when the (Liberal) government gets it.

Hali Gernon

If it was left solely to the devices of the government, that wouldn't have happened.

Michael Freeman

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Lord Melbourne

Everything was done legally, aboveboard and properly to get this project moving forward. No one's being bought here. This is about good government.

Craig Benedetto

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

Amy Goodman

We all expected they would appeal. They just continue to drag things along, which is, unfortunately, one of the difficulties against legal action against a government entity.

Maryanne Ingemanson

Meanwhile, the government has encouraged imports.

Liu Haiquan

This bill is only coming about this year because of the financial pressure from the federal government.

Sheila Kuehl

The coming 48 hours will be a test for the Israeli government to implement its commitments.

Nabil Aburdeneh

We do have a very spend-heavy government. There's very little savings.

Ron Schuler

We are disappointed that the Court of Appeals has decided that, unlike every other client and attorney in this country, government attorneys and their clients do not enjoy the right to have confidential communications.

Charles Ruff

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for, ... I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

James Bond

If National leads the government after Saturday, I can promise the first thing on my agenda will be to get to the bottom of this.

Judith Collins

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

John Paul Stevens

Because the donor of these funds has admitted to activities which are illegal and which we deplore as detrimental to our form of government, the executive director of the Rely On Your Beliefs (committee) will recommend that the board donate these funds to a charity.

Burson Taylor

I will give the negotiations one month to succeed. If they fail, I will withdraw from government.

Arben Xhaferi

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.

Robert Jenkins

Had he not lied to agents in 2001, the U.S. government would have stopped those deaths, or at least some of them.

Rob Spencer

The government, the people concerned with the environment, they want that ethanol in there.

Alexa Gromko

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Sam Houston

But when we got there, they told me that they were only taking people who came in (government-sponsored) buses.

Armand Watson

This is a major step forward in citizen access to government.

Chris Leman

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

You measure a government by how few people need help.

Patricia Schroeder

Work with the government. We do the best we can.

Sean Berkowitz

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

Brian Schweitzer

This is a manifestation that democracy in our country is very much alive, and protected by both government and people.

Fidel Ramos

This region has several benefits. You can get extensive funding from the European Union, the German government and state authorities.

David Hogg

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Herbert Hoover

The government is trying to put Jose in the same box, but it just doesn't fit.

Michael Caruso

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

Kay Hutchison

The burden to show that this is necessary falls on the government. There was no transparency. This is disturbing.

Daniel Patterson

It would not be appropriate to comment while the House Committee on Government Reform is doing its work.

Arn Tellem

It was forward-thinking, as far as government offices go.

Richard Stogner

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Cornelius Nepos

I am also delighted that a fully-fledged government will soon be in place once more.

Gerrit Zalm

Without decisive policy action by the government, the 11,000 will be just a passing point.

Yoshihisa Okamoto

This is an area where the federal government falls flat on its face.

Danielle Brian

It is the President's prerogative to appoint people to his cabinet, but there is a commitment to co-government at all levels.

Marthinus Van Schalkwyk

Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest.

Julien Pain

Look, government is responsible, I'm responsible, no question about it.

Gordon Campbell

Information technology, the environment, aerospace, energy, and biotech are where the (government) money is focused on.

Adam Segal

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

Chauncey Depew

The diplomats backed the government in its efforts to appease the situation.

Michel Brunache

Is committed to principles of freedom of expression and media, as we are sure is the Czech Government.

Jonathan Faull

It would be disastrous for business confidence if the government reconsidered this legislation again.

Jakob Edberg

This will not affect the formation of the government and could even be a positive factor to end the political volatility we are living through.

Gen Michel Aoun

I doubt China would allow the Taiwan government to do so.

Simon Chao

Let the Government get to the bottom of the matter and leave no stone unturned.

Adan Dualle

The declaration of a unilateral ceasefire declared by the Maoists a few days ago has drawn the attention of the government.

Tanka Dhakal

We're now in our 50s, and we're government civil servants, teachers, college faculty or employed by nonprofit programs.

Doug Eglington

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

Joichi Ito

The U.S. government has no greater capacity to trace a 'mad cow' back to its origins or answer crucial questions about its origins than it did on Dec. 23, 2003.

Carol Tucker Foreman

They don't want a trial. That could implicate Fujimori and others in the government.

Fernando Rospigliosi

Our company was definitely looked at very hard; we met a lot of top government officials and held deep conversations.

Harry White

In the '90s the government decided that any profits made on a property were tax-free up to $500,000.

Rob Williams

The discipline of power is what this is all about: to keep the extremists at bay. If he fails at doing that, his government will fall.

Michael Behiels

If the government flatly and consistently refuses to provide figures, it means only one thing - it's been abusing the powers so flagrantly it can't give you figures.

Audrey Eu

A summary of the documents downloaded... so that the government can take the necessary action.

Raul Gonzalez

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

Bruce Schneier

Every government has its own rules for antitrust that are in many ways very different from each other. It is more of a frustration for developers than anything else.

Dion Wiggins

Please change the government and give us a chance.

Katsuya Okada

The approach adopted by the government to muzzle the press must be resisted by all Kenyans.

Tom Ojienda

I've been criticizing them for 20 years for doing it that way. It's not good government.

Tony Oppegard

In principle, what this has done is it has infringed on the executive branch's ability to manage the day-to-day operations of the government.

Shawn Gumataotao

It's clearly a hybrid. It's certainly dependent on (UK) for financing...but the student government association is allowed to be that; they're the students who govern themselves.

Fred Peters

We are still exploring the options and it is the government which will have a final say on this. I hope it can be put in place as soon as possible.

Guo Shuqing

Our children for the last 10 years, it's been said in every government survey, it's easier for them to buy illegal drugs than it is to buy beer and cigarettes.

Jack Cole

This appeal is about a special pot of government money that cannot be enjoyed by people who don't believe in God.

Adam Schwartz

How can the federal government feed its employees with catered meals and not feed the victims of Hurricane Katrina?

Colleen Cooke

They care about their citrus trees. A lot of them also care about the fact that the government took their property and didn't compensate them for it.

Robert Gilbert

It's a bad thing when the government interferes in the relationship between employer and employee.

David Webb

To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.

Irene Peter

I think we'll have a government that lasts six months.

Pietro Bianchi

It's not enough any more for the government to publish dietary guidelines and point their finger at Americans and say, 'Eat better.' It takes more than that.

Margo Wootan

Such low expectations may or may not be unfair. But either way, they pose a problem for the government.

John Philpott

This is a good sign to show that the government is moving in the right direction.

Fauzi Ichsan

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

George Gilder

It is not a closed chapter. The UDF government will continue discussions with the concerned communities on the issue and arrive a solution.

Ramesh Chennithala