I spent a lot of my early blogging career sort of highlighting all the ills of the government in Kenya and all the corruption and problems.
Ory Okolloh
GovernmentProblemsCorruptionEarly
The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place.
Jeremy Rifkin
GovernmentInsurancePlaceIndustry
The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country.
Bob Corker
GovernmentThinkBrandProblemDebt
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln
EducationGovernmentSchoolWill
At 10 A.M. on the Friday after the election in 2010, David Cameron's team met in his room at the Westminster Bridge Park Plaza Hotel. Cameron was clear that, unable to form a majority government, they had to begin talks with the Lib Dems about forming a coalition. But in a rare example of strategic discord, George Osborne disagreed.
Michael Ashcroft
GovernmentTeamBridgeFridayHotel
When I joined the Senate in January 2011, I raised my right hand, placed my left hand on the Bible, and swore a solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Defending the constitutional domain of the branch of government in which I serve is an obligation of that oath.
Ron Johnson
JanuaryGovernmentSupportBible
Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.
Mitt Romney
WorkPowerGovernmentPlanSayWill
At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain.
Randal Cremer
GovernmentWarLossRumorsFirst
Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.
Chris Christie
GovernmentSomeoneDoingSaySize
Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies.
Karen Mills
GovernmentSmallGoContractsSure
The Tea Party grew out of indignation over the Wall Street bailout - an indignation shared by the vast majority of Americans. But the Tea Party ended up directing its ire at government rather than at big business and Wall Street.
Robert Reich
BusinessGovernmentTeaPartyWall
Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it.
William Godwin
GovernmentInjusticeBeenEffect
Our dad was just a congressman for 27 years, and if you live in Washington, D.C., everybody's dad works for the government. We grew up just like everyone else.
Steven Ford
LiveGovernmentYouWashingtonUp
Government influences your life every day. If there's a war, they're not drafting guys my age.
Mike Quigley
LifeAgeDayGovernmentWarYour
The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.
Ben Shapiro
GovernmentPeopleControlKnowForce
Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.
Jose Eduardo dos Santos
GovernmentGoalPriceEnemyRealize
The organization of the government itself is something which we ought to examine in a more self-conscious way - the Federal Reserve and the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The mission that each of them has is mainly economic but should be informed by good organizational practices.
Oliver E. Williamson
GoodGovernmentOrganizationMission
The overwhelming majority of new mortgages are issued with government backing in a highly concentrated securitization market. That leaves us with both potential taxpayer liability and systemic risk.
Jerome Powell
GovernmentPotentialNewRiskMarket
There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.
Bob Hawke
GovernmentDoubtCountryDoneTrade
In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
HomeManGovernmentI AmPoorWild
I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.
Michael Badnarik
YourselfGovernmentMeFindI Can
When the federal government gets around to cleaning up their lists, I am sure we'll take another look at the Lowey amendment. But until then, this effort will continue to have bipartisan opposition.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
GovernmentI AmEffortLookCleaning
On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.
HealthDecisionGovernmentCareWill
The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
Samuel Freeman Miller
PowerGreatGovernmentCongressMay
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