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Quotes About Government

When governments are cowed or simply don't care to enforce fundamental human and labour rights or to ensure corporate tax is paid so that they can invest in social protection and in the health and education of their people, they cede control to corporate greed.
~ Sharan Burrow
Frankly, I do like the idea that we centralize consumer protection for financial products into one agency.
~ Jeb Hensarling
The government argues that without a price, the living world is accorded no value, so irrational decisions are made. By costing nature, you ensure that it commands the investment and protection that other forms of capital attract.
~ George Monbiot
GST may well have to rise, but Singaporeans could be more likely to accept it if the government considers the pros and cons of moving from the established orthodoxy, and consider new approaches that improve social protection thresholds for all, and elderly Singaporeans in particular.
~ Pritam Singh
We need to close the loopholes that allowed large corporations to abuse the Paycheck Protection Program.
~ Jaime Harrison
Conservatives cannot deny that our Founders intended the judiciary as an equal and independent branch of government purposed to ensure the protection of every citizen's rights.
~ Margaret Hoover
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
~ Will Rogers
The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.
~ Jack Layton
If state protects the rights of people, they start respecting the state.
~ Asma Jahangir
The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also implement the stipulation in real earnest. I think for any government, what is most important is to ensure that its people enjoy each and every right given to them by the constitution.
~ Wen Jiabao
Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.
~ Jim DeMint
We need a presidency which acts and protects us.
~ Marine Le Pen
We should protest to ban NEET altogether.
~ Vetrimaaran
In Japan, it becomes a huge issue in terms of not just the government and its protest against the United States, but all different groups and all different peoples in Japan start to protest.
~ Martha Smith
India is the biggest democracy. We have the right to say what we want to say, and people have the right to protest.
~ Jackie Shroff
Minorities, Dalits, farmers, students, writers - all have faced the brunt of the Narendra Modi government and risen in protest.
~ Pinarayi Vijayan
I fully support everyone's individual right to protest their government.
~ Tate Reeves
I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
~ Ed Harris
Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
~ Ferdinand Lassalle
Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
~ Bill Moyers
Families will now have to prove to the IRS that they have Washington-approved and government-mandated insurance.
~ John Barrasso
The question is, really, does the nonexistence of another attack prove that the programs that are in place are working?
~ Matt Apuzzo
I'm not serving in the same party as Boris Johnson. He's proved that he's incapable of holding high office, never mind being prime minister. He's not true to what he believes in.
~ Anna Soubry