#govern

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#government #interested #issues #just #more

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#desires #government #happy #how #knows

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 Kirby

#chinese #chinese government #development #economic #economic development

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#because #believe #changed #contribution #evidence

We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans. ↗

— Leopoldo Lopez

#anti-democratic #democratic state #government #human #human rights

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse. ↗

— Jack Lynch

#injured #innocent #innocent people #irish #longer

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States. ↗

— Bill Owens

#am #domestic #focus #governor #i

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#again #autonomous #back #born #capacity

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?' ↗

— Jacob Lew

#fiscal #government #our #overall #pay

The State is like a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life. I am that gadfly which God has given the State and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you. You will not easily find another like me. ↗

— Plato

#life