Quotes About Government

There is no question of any alliance with the Congress party. The Congress have always neglected the people of Odisha.

There is no reason why government should not be as efficient as any good business.

There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay.

There is no reason that billionaires should crowd us out from our democracy.

In many ways, anti-anti-Trumpism mirrors Donald Trump himself because, at its core there are no fixed values, no respect for constitutional government or ideas of personal character - only a free-floating nihilism cloaked in insult, mockery, and bombast.

My government is in no sense anti-Russian.

There's no time, place, or purpose of a government shutdown or default.

I think politics is an incredibly noble and fulfilling enterprise, and it's the best way to do the most good for the most people.

I am very happy to be nominated by the Congress party to contest the Lok Sabha elections.

And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote.

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

Although we can talk about an Indonesian democracy, or we can talk about democratic elections and democratic rituals - the trappings of democracy - we can't genuinely talk about democracy in Indonesia because there is not rule of law, and democracy without rule of law is a nonsense.

I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

Who in the world wants to run a country where the new norm is one where there are no jobs?

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the 'Con' into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the 'vat' into Conservative!

The domestic policy of any president, U.S. or otherwise, is his or her own concern, as long as democratic norms are followed.

If you think about it, the people of Cuba and North Korea will never meet because, well, they have restricted freedom of movement.

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

Men, once enemies, are now jointly governing in Northern Ireland. And although there have been several hitches, by and large it's working well.

One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.

I was not interested in being minister of defense or minister of foreign affairs.

Every government secretary of state or minister should jolly well go to the theatre, go to a concert, go to an art gallery, go to a museum, become somehow interested in these things. If they're not interested, they shouldn't be in government, full stop.

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.