I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.

We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002.

The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.

Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!

I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.