Quotes About Government

Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.

When traders will start cancelling orders from China it will send a powerful message to Chinese government that antagonising India will extract a huge price.

It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

Google pays advertisers based not just on payment per click but also by number of clicks. The interplay between the two sets the prices, so a government-regulated price for 'equal access' might be difficult to set.

Government is the only industry in which we don't have a choice. If you live somewhere, you belong to that government. So we get bad service for high prices. This doesn't have to be.

While millionaire Liberals like Justin Trudeau may want higher gas prices, hardworking Canadian families definitely do not.

If there is one person in Nigeria that believes that petroleum prices should not go up by one naira, it is President Buhari.

When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.

I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

I came to Washington primarily to meet other entrepreneurs. That being said, I was also curious to hear how our federal government was thinking about entrepreneurship.

What we should be doing is responsibly addressing the primary drivers of our debt and deficit issues.

My problem anywhere is the damn Republicans closed out the independents from being able to vote in the primary.

The primary role of government is to provide for the safety and security of their populations.

We have legislated to protect the public from tax rises and guarantee incomes for pensioners, so enshrining in law more protections for consumers, commuters and investors is possible. Enshrining these rights into law would mean that any future government which wanted to reverse this would have to go through the primary legislative process.

A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.

Modi is a disgrace to the prime minister's post.

Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.

The prime minister's office is not something that one enjoys.

If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven - from their sadness to their hope.

Every day, the Prime Minister is a 24-hour servant of the people of India.

The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.