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Quotes About Progress

I dream of a Digital India where technology ensures the Citizen-Government interface is incorruptible.
~ Narendra Modi
'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.
~ Emma Goldman
Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
~ Manmohan Singh
A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil
~ Gerry Adams
Almost every great innovation was [created] by government.
~ Joe Biden
What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.
~ Harold Washington
The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.
~ William C. Kirby
If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.
~ Bella Abzug
There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.
~ Ellen MacArthur
The recession is over." This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning is unclear. See: Depression.
~ John Ralston Saul
The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.
~ Ronald Reagan
Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
~ Bill Gates
The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.
~ Peter Schiff
If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
~ G. Gordon Liddy
The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development
~ Andrew Cuomo
A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.
~ Thomas Francis Meagher
Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
~ Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.
~ Roy Jenkins
Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women
~ Sima Samar
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
~ William Howard Taft
It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.
~ Roger Wicker
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.
~ Gustav Stresemann