466 Governments Quotes for You to Enjoy

Crucially, African governments must ensure they prioritize the eradication of tax evasion and tax avoidance. Winnie Byanyima

Ensure Must Prioritize Governments African Tax Avoidance Evasion

In their war against Israel's existence, the Arab governments took advantage of the Cold War. They enlisted the military, economic, and political support of the communist world against Israel, and they turned a local, regional conflict into an international powder keg. Yitzhak Shamir

War Conflict World Political Military Cold Cold War Took Local Arab Economic Powder Support Advantage Israel Existence Governments Against Regional Turned Communist International Enlisted

In the 1990s and 2000s, the liberal story shaped not only the foreign policy of the United States and its allies, but also the domestic policies of governments across the world, from South Africa to Indonesia. Yuval Noah Harari

After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries - not just representatives of governments, but also civil society and activists. Noam Chomsky

Out of the suffering of the 1930s, Britain built a civilising society, based in large part on the important lesson that unemployment is rarely the fault of individual malingering but the structural consequence of governments allowing the free market to rule our lives. John McDonnell

Suffering Fault Free Important Lesson Society Market Our Rule Our Lives Out Rarely Structural Free Market Individual 1930s Allowing Part Important Lesson Built Governments Unemployment Large Large Part Based Lives Britain Consequence

Governments usually end not with a bang but with a whimper, as the Conservatives learned in the 1990s. Support and authority erodes over time until there is a final collapse of support and pivotal electoral shift. John McDonnell

Time Conservatives Final Collapse 1990s Support Over Until Learned Shift Governments End Authority Bang Pivotal Electoral

Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers. Frances O'Grady

Own Way Markets Stripes Deliver Pick Economies Devices Learned Losers Governments Left Expensive Banking Want Hard Hard Way Now Growth

The fact of the matter is that when governments fail - as the Tories have done - to tackle the root causes of working peoples' need for welfare support, like low pay and high rents, the number of working people relying on benefits increases. Emily Thornberry

People Benefits Welfare Matter Pay Increases Tories High Tackle Relying Fact Fail Support Like Causes Governments Done Low Root Working Working People Number Need

In theory, the MSRB is supposed to protect the public interest, investors, and state and local governments. In practice, the MSRB membership structure is more shaded toward protecting the financial professionals who broker the deals. John Kennedy

Financial Practice State Local Local Governments Membership Broker Structure More Investors Toward Supposed Protect Protecting Deals Governments Interest Public Public Interest Theory Who Professionals

I believe that when the public lacks even the most fundamental access to what its governments and militaries are doing in their names, then they cease to be involved in the act of citizenship. Chelsea Manning

Believe I Believe I Believe That Citizenship Names Most Involved Access Doing Cease Governments Lacks Public Then Act Even Fundamental

The idea that, in the age of Google, Facebook and the internet, government can control the 'commanding heights' of the economy is one of the great delusions of our age. Modern techonology, social media, the explosion of online retail, among many other things, have meant that governments have less and less control. Kwasi Kwarteng

Government Great Age Facebook Social Media Internet Google Control Heights Other Our Online Retail Delusions Idea Economy Commanding Governments Modern Social Meant Explosion Less Many Media Among Things

When governments fail us, what else can people do except take to direct action? When corporate power can so dominate government policy-making that whole communities are placed at risk, where else can people turn? John McDonnell

Government People Power Action Else Corporate Direct Risk Except Take Fail Governments Dominate Where Placed Turn Us Communities Whole

Our supporters just want a Labour government. They want a Labour government that does what Labour governments are expected to do. They expect a Labour government to provide them, their families and their communities with the support and security they need, especially in difficult times. John McDonnell

All kinds of excuses have been given by governments for not implementing this recommendation like food price inflation. But the question is, do the farmers of this country, who constitute nearly half of the working population, also not need to eat? M. S. Swaminathan

Food Inflation Country Half Recommendation Kinds Eat Constitute Given Price Implementing Like Excuses Also Been Question Governments Working Farmers Who Population Nearly Need

Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force. P. J. O'Rourke

Eminent Like Force Deadly Domain Governments Certain Certain Things Things Monopolies

I have felt the force of what governments can do. I remember my elder son being in the first cohort of kids who got a free nursery place, I remember the palliative care my mother got at home as I watched her die. Jess Phillips

I've seen at first-hand what Labour Governments can achieve in power. Angela Rayner

Achieve Seen Power First-Hand Governments Labour

It costs governments money to keep fuel prices low. Oil-rich Yemen, for instance, devotes 9 percent of its GDP to making sure its people don't riot when oil prices rise. Robert Kiyosaki

People Money Riot Rise Percent Costs Prices Instance GDP Sure Making Governments Yemen Oil Oil Prices Low Fuel Keep

I hope that we increasingly shift power to local governments. Zephyr Teachout

Hope Power Increasingly Local Local Governments I Hope That Shift Governments

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