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They are allowing young kids in primary school to be able to have the permission to change their gender if they want by taking away the permission of the parents. They are trying to take control, as a government, to make those decisions for young kids who are basically 16 years old, or young.

Quotes by Israel Folau

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

Quotes by Isaac Watts

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

Quotes by Isabel Paterson

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips. Unless President Hayes is a strong man, they will soon come to boast that their government is composed of the 'biggest scoundrels' in the world.

Quotes by Isabella Bird

Whoever wants Yesh Atid in the government has to vote for us - there's no other choice.

Quotes by Isaac Herzog

The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.

Quotes by Irwin Redlener

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Quotes by Isaac Asimov

Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.

Quotes by Irvine Welsh

To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.

Quotes by Irene Peter

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

Quotes by Iris Chang

I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.

Quotes by Irv Kupcinet

A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.

Quotes by Iqbal Quadir

Our government is not protecting us. They are exploiting us.

Quotes by Indya Moore

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

Quotes by Imran Khan

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

Quotes by Imran Khan

Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Quotes by Ilyasah Shabazz

'Hispanic' was the term adopted by the government - by the Nixon government in particular - and that made the community feel it was being branded.

Quotes by Ilan Stavans

All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.

Quotes by Igor Luksic

The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.

Quotes by Ike Skelton

The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.

Quotes by Ike Skelton

That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage.

Quotes by Ike Skelton

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

Quotes by Ibrahim Babangida

I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education.

Quotes by Ibrahim Hooper

As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.

Quotes by Ibrahim Rugova

Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having all these things and with the privatization we also want to create more jobs and better conditions for the workers.

Quotes by Ibrahim Rugova

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

Quotes by Ida B. Wells

I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.

Quotes by Idris Elba

Strong Islamist trends make a fundamentalist Palestine more likely than a small state under a secular government.

Quotes by Ian Lustick

They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.

Quotes by Hutton Gibson

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

Quotes by I. F. Stone

I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

Quotes by Iain Sinclair

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

Quotes by Hugo Chavez

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

Quotes by Hugo Chavez

In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.

Quotes by Hugo Chavez

Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?

Quotes by Hugo Chavez

I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.

Quotes by Hugo Chavez

There's been an open attack by the U.S. government, an immoral attack, to try and prevent Venezuela from being freely elected to a post in the Security Council. The imperium is afraid of truth, is afraid of independent voices. It calls us extremists, but they are the extremists.

Quotes by Hugo Chavez

I have to leave the government in the year 2012. I have to go.

Quotes by Hugo Chavez

I don't think anybody has ever been able to live up to what they promised. I don't know a government that has ever been successful at that because once they get into power, things change and the world is controlled also by business now.

Quotes by Hugh Masekela

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

Quotes by Hugo Black

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

Quotes by Hugo Black

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

Quotes by Hugo Black

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

Quotes by Hugo Black

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

Quotes by Hugo Black

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

Quotes by Huey Long

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

Quotes by Howard Zinn

The Chinese government tried to keep a lid on the SARS crisis, but there were 160 million text messages in three days sent by Chinese citizens. These are early indications that it's going to be difficult for people who used to have control over the news to maintain that level of control.

Quotes by Howard Rheingold

When the government is handed over to the Iraqi Council on 30 June, many have declared, oh, the Americans must never leave because civil unrest may erupt. Well, I agree, we cannot abruptly depart, but Iraq needs to step up to the plate on 30 June.

Quotes by Howard Coble

I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.

Quotes by Howard Coble

After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.

Quotes by Howard Coble

Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment.

Quotes by Howard Baker

We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.

Quotes by Howard Baker

I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there.

Quotes by Howard Baker

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

Quotes by Howard Berman

Inside Iran, people are actually quite well-educated about America. There are things they don't understand, particularly in the government, but the people, by and large, know the American sensibility quite well, and the reverse is not true.

Quotes by Hooman Majd

It is not good to have a rule of many.

Homer

I stand today on this floor to appeal for protection from the strong arm of the government for her loyal children, irrespective of color and race, who are citizens of the southern states, and particularly of the State of Georgia.

Quotes by Hiram Rhodes Revels

Reflecting on the past, where the film industry became united with 'national interest' and 'national policy,' I tend to think that keeping a clear distance from government authority is the right thing to do.

Quotes by Hirokazu Kore-eda

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.

Quotes by Hjalmar Schacht

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.

Quotes by Ho Chi Minh

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

Quotes by Hill Harper

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

Quotes by Hillary Clinton

I'm not comparing it with cricketers who get huge money. But getting some financial benefits do motivate players, especially athletes. I appreciate this move by the state government. A state like Haryana has been producing more and more players because of such motivations.

Quotes by Hima Das

The Japanese government has accepted the notion that Japan is the loser, and it appears to be going to accept unconditional surrender. Such a position frustrates the officers and soldiers of the imperial armed forces.

Quotes by Hideki Tojo

If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.

Quotes by Herman Cain

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

Quotes by Herman Cain

Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries.

Quotes by Herman Gorter

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.

Quotes by Herman Kahn

There's something about dealing with government agencies that makes you feel like a criminal.

Quotes by Herb Trimpe

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

Quotes by Herbert Croly

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Quotes by Herbert Hoover

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Quotes by Herbert Hoover

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Quotes by Herbert Hoover

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

Quotes by Herbert Hoover

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Quotes by Herbert Hoover

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

Quotes by Herbert Hoover

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

Quotes by Henry Morton Stanley

As the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage.

Quotes by Henry Paulson

It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger.

Quotes by Henry Paulson

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

Quotes by Henry Knox

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

Quotes by Henry Knox

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

Quotes by Henry Knox

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.

Quotes by Henry Knox

Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.

Quotes by Henry Knox

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.

Quotes by Henry L. Stimson

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

I can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in the town of Del Rio. At the time, FEMA was the shining star of the federal government. It's now perceived as many to be the dullest knife in the drawer. Right or wrong, that's the perception.

Quotes by Henry Bonilla

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of Texas House members just last fall. You know, we've had almost 200,000 OTMs - the government categorizes OT 'other, other than Mexicans' - along the Mexican border.

Quotes by Henry Bonilla

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

Quotes by Henry Clay

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

Quotes by Henry A. Wallace

I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.

Quotes by Helle Thorning-Schmidt

When I was elected to head the German government, I was fortunate enough to find a partner in Francois Mitterrand.

Quotes by Helmut Kohl

Politicians and the government have become too interested in short-term gains. Of course, if you look at the direct financial returns in the short term, human space flight is expensive. But they need to look longer term.

Quotes by Helen Sharman

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

Quotes by Helen Sharman

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

Quotes by Helen Suzman

Ethiopia's government is doing a commendable job of working closely with donors and humanitarian organizations to educate parents about child marriage, and to support organizations like the Hamlin Fistula Hospital.

Quotes by Helene D. Gayle

Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.

Quotes by Helen Prejean

In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.

Quotes by Helen Clark

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