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Quotes About Impact

Words don't change children's lives. Real action by the government and equality would.
~ Cindy Blackstock
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
~ Sallust
Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.
~ John Stuart Mill
Public influence is the real government of the world.
~ Josiah Warren
Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.
~ Sun Myung Moon
The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City.
~ Van Jones
I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
~ Dave Eggers
The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.
~ Bill Drayton
No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.
~ Peter Drucker
I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.
~ Gerry Adams
We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
Influence is not government.
~ George Washington
Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?
~ Harry Browne
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.
~ Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon, too.
~ Henrik Vibskov
Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.
~ Jose Manuel Barroso
As far as bands doing that in a way where they think they're going to fight the government, the only people they're really hurting is the fans.
~ John Petrucci
When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens
~ John Warren Kindt
It was while starting my business that I saw my first glimpse of government's impact on business.
~ Kay Granger
Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government
~ John Warren Kindt
Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most affected.
~ Ruth Simmons
Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.
~ Michael Arrington
Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.
~ Melinda Gates
Last year I spoke about Clean India and open defecation, it was criticised then but that has been the main point with which the government has touched the lives of the people.
~ Narendra Modi