#governments

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

#commissioners #competence #countries #credibility #each

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#church #government #governments #religion #religion

I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#govern #governments #i #i think #more

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#africa #apartheid #around #corporate #could

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#before #civilization #create #cyberspace #fair

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#efforts #governments #law #liberty #man

UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#called #children #ensure #exists #food

Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do. Governments are always trying to extend their responsibilities and their estates, and it is very hard for parliaments to reign them in. ↗

— James Buchan

#always #charge #democracies #estates #extend

We must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#am #care #governments #i #i am

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#again #american #american people #any #back