466 Governments Quotes for You to Enjoy

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. John Stuart Mill

Power Organ Only Tendencies Instincts Name Masses Make Governments While Themselves Deserving

Once you put in backdoors, once you allow a government to intercept anything they want, you have to give it to other governments around the world. Once you do that, there is no privacy; there is no security. There is no protection for democracy. John T. Chambers

Government Democracy You Privacy World Protection Other Once Security Give Allow Put Around Governments Want Intercept Anything

It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail. Jon Meacham

Great Reality Comforting Wonderful Complicated Caricatures Corporations Sector Would Would-Be More Fail Terrible Always Private Were Governments Private Sector Than Public Public Sector Alas

Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is the art of strategic lying. Jonathan Turley

Art People Degree Diplomacy Other Lying Frankly Would Find Part Most Governments Shocking Used Strategic Each

TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast. Jonathan Zittrain

World Power Sense Broadcast Broadcasting Those Airwaves TV Determined Exceptions Over Around Territories Governments Bandwidth Owned Decide Deciding Then Use Who Asserted Why

Providing investors with recourse against governments is valuable. Jose Angel Gurria

Valuable Recourse Investors Providing Governments Against

The OECD advocates a risk-based approach to water security and is calling on governments to speed up their efforts to improve efficiency and effectiveness of water management. We recommend improving water pricing to recover costs and to reflect the value of water to users and society. Jose Angel Gurria

Management Water Value Reflect Society Speed Approach Recommend Security Costs Recover Pricing Calling Advocate Governments Up Effectiveness Efficiency Improve Efforts Improving Users

Governments are not always right. Jose Manuel Barroso

Always Governments Right

The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries. Jose Ramos-Horta

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin. Joseph Conrad

Back Governments Same May Nations Them Paid Coin

Under Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in the U.K., there was a rewriting of the basic rules of capitalism. These two governments changed the rules governing labour bargaining, weakening trade unions, and they weakened anti-trust enforcement, allowing more monopolies to be created. Joseph Stiglitz

Capitalism Unions Changed States Rules Weakened Weakening More Allowing Trade Trade Unions Reagan Governing Governments Labour Thatcher Rewriting Ronald Reagan Created Enforcement Bargaining United United States Basic Margaret Margaret Thatcher Two Monopolies

It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios. Julie Bishop

Response Scenarios Fact Tend Put Policies Governments Current Place Strategies

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means. Julie Bishop

Live States Must Message Within Governments Means Europe United United States

Throughout our history, Canada's immigration policy has brought people here who had a pathway to citizenship. They were - and are - nation builders. It has been supported by political parties of all stripes and promoted by successive governments over generations. Justin Trudeau

History People Immigration Political Nation Our Stripes Has-Been Immigration Policy Citizenship Promoted Brought Throughout Had Generations Supported Over Parties Policy Builders Were Been Governments Political Parties Canada Pathway Successive Who Here

We as the governments, workers, employers and civil society must declare a war on child labour. This war cannot be won without strong, committed, coherent, and well-resourced worldwide movement. Equally needed is a genuine and active coordination between intergovernmental agencies at the highest level. Kailash Satyarthi

War Strong Active Society Worldwide Must Civil Civil Society Highest Highest Level Between Employers Equally Without Genuine Governments Won Child Labour Committed Movement Cannot Declare Agencies Workers Coordination Level Coherent Needed

As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world. Karin Slaughter

Library World Down Local Our Local Governments Libraries Must Citizens Properly Invest Adult Generations Demand Voters Prioritize Governments Up Contribute Just Taxpayers Communities Who Grow Grow Up Served Street

Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation. Kat Graham

Together People Water Organization Own Reliable Systems Solutions Entrepreneurs Maintain Empower Governments Create Sanitation Communities International Brings

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information. Kate Adie

Gone Prohibit Members Instance Contact Always IRA Question Governments Ireland Irish Northern Northern Ireland Information Media Believing Right British

For some in Washington, it's become sport to pick on the federal workforce. I think they do so unjustly. The very foundation of a stable America is having a government that functions well. Many countries have dysfunctional governments, because they don't have a good government workforce. Ken Salazar

Government Good Become Think Some Having Federal Pick Countries Sport Well Because Governments Very America Stable Dysfunctional Workforce Many Washington Functions Foundation Good Government

The E.U. is a common platform where we come together and agree to do certain things. But the E.U. is never going to take over the responsibility which governments have for prosperity and security of their people. Kersti Kaljulaid

Together People Prosperity Responsibility Security Take Never Over Come Governments Going Common Where Which Certain Certain Things Agree Platform Things

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country. Kevin Rudd

I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around. Kim Campbell

Needs People Other Way Must Around Always Governments Believed Adapt

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