#governments

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#bankers #based #could #financing #go

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#always #even #governments #hatched #history

We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments. ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#armaments #aspect #been #change #corresponding

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#failed #governments #indigenous #indigenous people #latin

To be sure, in some instances these proceedings have been unconstitutional, but we must remember that it is not the first time since a war that there have been changes in governments by such methods. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#changes #first #first time #governments #instances

Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer. Yet by his own decisions, President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined. One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#any #back #before #called #candidate

For some in Washington, it's become sport to pick on the federal workforce. I think they do so unjustly. The very foundation of a stable America is having a government that functions well. Many countries have dysfunctional governments, because they don't have a good government workforce. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#because #become #countries #dysfunctional #federal

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#authoritarian #broad #come #democracies #fragile

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#function #governments #important #local #local governments

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#governments #human #human rights #pressured #rights