Quotes About Governments

The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

The world's politics are in turmoil, not to mention the Mideast, where the US has mounted attacks from Libya to Iraq to Syria, and ISIS is attacking governments in today's pipeline rivalry.

Consumers are what's going to change the world, not necessarily industries or governments,

It costs more to transact abroad, and many foreign governments tax stock dividends; although you can recover this cost in a taxable account through the foreign tax credit on your U.S. tax return, you cannot do so in a retirement account.

It was possible to borrow British technology, and increasingly governments began to promote development. By the end of the nineteenth century, governments and large banks were actively managing industrial change.

Keynesian orthodoxy started from the assumption that capitalist markets would not really work unless capitalist governments were willing effectively to play nanny: most famously, by engaging in massive deficit "pump-priming" during downturns.

most medieval governments threatened extremely harsh penalties on bankers unable to make restitution in such cases: as witnessed by the example of Francesch Castello, beheaded in front of his own bank in Barcelona in 1360.76

One of the greatest benefits that the eventual triumph of artificial intelligence will bring to mankind will be the eradication of dysfunctional governments and the criminal activities of turd squeak politicians.

Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small, that it scarcely admits of calculation. Commerce, therefore, in my opinion, is apt to decay in absolute governments, not because it is there less secure, but because it is less honourable.

Real power around the world does not reside with governments any longer, but with private interests. Real power is secret power.

Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

Refugee problems can only be solved in the region (of origin) - maybe with a little help from the UN. Governments must provide something for their countries. They need to deliver.

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don't understand this.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.

Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.

I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.

Email says that no, it is the governments of Saudi and Qatar that have been funding ISIS.

UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.

Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.