Quotes About Government

We believe that settlement expansion policies pursued in recent decades by successive Israeli governments have facilitated the process of de-facto annexation. It has complicated the dialogue between the different communities.

In recent years it's become really apparent, the division between what government is and what communities want.

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

The reason that ISIL was so successful, yes, it had to do with their capabilities and prowess on the battlefield, but they were dealing with a receptive constituency in northern Iraq because of the intense hatred of the Maliki government, which of course is imposing the Shia view on them.

You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

A government can't cut its way out of a recession any more than you can dig yourself out of a hole.

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.

The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.

Aggressive government spending during the Great Recession was absolutely necessary.

You don't have to look any farther than the state of California to know that having a 'Gordian knot' of conflicting measures acting upon on your state budget is a recipe for disaster.

Too often in Washington, we only look at the recipient side: How does the budget affect either those who receive or don't receive benefits.

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

The most compelling economic and geopolitical story in 2017 will almost certainly revolve around China. The world's most populous country bankrolled an economic boom with high levels of debt and leverage, with which the government is now forced to reckon.

As late as 2009, 90 per cent of Afghans reckoned Karzai's performance was excellent, good or fair.

The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush.

Nationalization would likely mean wiping out the big banks' managements and shareholders. It's because that reckoning has mostly been avoided so far that those bankers may be the Americans in the greatest denial of all.

The Government needs to recognise that we live on a planet with finite resources - and start measuring our progress as a society by the quality of our lives, not the expansion of our GDP.

The government must recognise that taxing retailers differently is reckless.

The government is right to recognise the importance of science and technology, but I think it is a mistake to ringfence funds.

Government has learned a lot from the business world - and I hope that some companies will recognise they can learn from each other, too.

The Government has correctly recognised that this E.U. law cannot all be changed into domestic law at once.