#government

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#been #between #feeling #getting #government

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. ↗

— I. F. Stone

#every #government #liars #nothing #run

What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years? ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#being #deportation #etc #get #go

Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#agenda #bush #domino #ego #george

The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals. ↗

— David Suzuki

#away #been #deals #delay #desire

Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#government #government workers #hard #just #most

It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#get #government #hard #kill #like

Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#air #air force #asked #doubled #force

I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark. ↗

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#bid #create #denmark #feel #get

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#attention #did #every #fraction #give