Quotes About Government

The government can build institutional infrastructure to address the paradox of floods and calamities in some parts of the country, and water scarcity in other parts.

We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene. You have to make sure it's not the law of the jungle but the laws of democracy that works.

Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.

I don't mind giving 5,000 pardons a day.

We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.

I'm against government-subsidized parking and government-mandated parking.

Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.

The BJP does not intend to use Parliament to project Congress's corruption.

If we want to change a law, we can do that in Parliament. That is a democratic right that has often been taken from the E.U.

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

I am well aware of the politics of Uttar Pradesh, as I have had multiple stints as a member of Parliament. I know how politics works here.

There are occasions when obstruction in Parliament brings greater benefits to the country.

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected parliament that does not appoint the executive, independent judiciaries and a complex set of relationships between the Commission, the Council of Ministers and the Parliament.

We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.

I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.

Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.

My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.

I notice that freedom of expression of an E.U. member of Parliament who denounces the actions of ISIS allows the French government to take her to court.

As members of the executive, we are accountable to Parliament.

It is not easy for the courts to control the intelligence agencies. There has to be concerted and coordinated effort on part of the courts, the parliament, and the government.

The government's intention is to function, to have debates in Parliament, and to work in the interest of the people.

Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.