Quotes About Governments

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties.

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

Relationships between governments are important, but relationships between people are the real foundation of mutual understanding.

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary.

I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.

The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

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

The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.

America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have unstable governments or are hostile towards the United States.

We cannot have foreign governments interceding in our elections.

But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs.

Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people's money, other people's safety, other people's future.

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.