History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting!

Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer.

In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy.

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.

At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.

The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.

The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.