#government

If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible. ↗

— Don Nickles

#basic #common #defense #fundamental #fundamental purpose

I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion. ↗

— Harry Oppenheimer

#always #confirm #development #economic #economic development

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black. ↗

— Harry Oppenheimer

#apartheid #attempt #black #both #doomed

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#airplane #created #environment #foreign #governments

The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism. ↗

— Daniel Ortega

#awareness #capitalists #collusion #commit #country

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'. ↗

— Cal Thomas

#constitution #earth #government #greater #mind

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#census #distributing #form #government #mechanism

Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#companies #government #hanging #head #information

Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#always #assume #cannot #expect #facilitate

I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#country #difficult #difficult moment #during #endangered