Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe… Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency. – Yoshihiko Noda
At the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God. – Todd Akin
The country voted to leave the European Union, and it is the duty of the Government and of Parliament to make sure we do just that. – Theresa May
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government. – Theodore Bikel
Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown. – Tim Robbins
The Constitution of the United States, like all systems of government which are permanent, had its origin in the history and necessities of the people through whose instrumentality and for whose benefit it was formed. – Samuel Freeman Miller
I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research. – Steve Case
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. – Thomas Jefferson
The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of the former freedom-fighters are big-time capitalists. They’ve been given directorships in every major company. They’re billionaires! – Wilbur Smith
In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact. – Steve Buyer
Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage? – Tim Pawlenty
The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality. – Stewart Udall
I had a hope that the Iraqis would embrace a new government, would establish a new Iraq very quickly, and, but I never had that as an expectation. – Tommy Franks
Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government. – Terry Pratchett
I don’t think the federal government should be a part of everything. I think that governing should be done state-by-state… so that you can tailor your governing to the people’s needs. – Stacey Dash
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. – William Kunstler
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. – Woodrow Wilson
The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago. – Timothy Noah
Your television has changed, your phone has changed. Why don’t these other things you need, that the government tells you you must have in your home, change? – Tony Fadell
We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs. – Stephen Harper
American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies. – Tony Judt
Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century. – Yochai Benkler
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect. – Sam Ewing
Certainly, the job of a U.S. senator is to create a climate conducive to creating jobs, which is lower taxes and less government regulation. What Harry Reid has been doing is putting forward those policies that actually put more regulation on business. – Sharron Angle
We’ve got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory. – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. – Thomas Jefferson
‘The world’s wealthiest failed state,’ as it has come to be known, Belgium endured 589 days without a functioning elected government between June 2010 and December 2011 and remains a dysfunctional, linguistically divided waxworks of one federal and five regional-cultural parliaments. – Terry Glavin