#governments

A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens. ↗

— John Coleman

#american citizens #becoming #calamities #carbon #citizens

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#basic #causing #crises #damage #economy

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#billion #business #communities #counting #critical

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#fortunate #governments #how #people #think

Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#criminals #explanation #eyes #gangs #gentlemen

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so. ↗

— Henry W. Kendall

#belief #change #devices #face #governments

We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis. ↗

— Paul Krugman

#borrow #capable #crisis #currency #debt

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#cheaply #commerce #common #could #cultivated

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it. ↗

— Noah Webster

#christian religion #corruptions #ecclesiastical #establishments #europe

The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#church #destroy #governments #man #marriage