Quotes About National

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.

Whether Canada ends up as o­ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion...

Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.

There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he that pays the price.

Peace is a national issue, not only government's responsibility.

Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to national realities.

Well, first let's say that the fundamental responsibility of any government is national security - in the preamble to the Constitution, provide for the common defense and insure domestic tranquility.

National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli governments responsibility.

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

I think people are tuning out the political class, tuning out the national media, and the American people are just gonna - we're just gonna demand government as good as our people again.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.

The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal.