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Under Conservative, Labour, and coalition governments, the U.K. was never willing to accept all the moves to union or all the requirements of the E.U.
The British and French governments have taken a strong stance against 'extremist content' online when addressing their approach to tackling extremism.
Over time, Europeans have come to rely on governments to protect them from the rougher facets of private enterprise and to look after them in old age.
It's the governments that create the problems. People are fun; people get along. People in Iran really love Americans. There is no problem between us.
We'd never be talking about Senator McGrath saying anything about state and local governments should be going bankrupt. I'd never even think about it.
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
I hear that from so many different governments, people coming to me and saying, 'You should be careful'. But I don't want to go around with bodyguards.
I think we live in a country that sometimes forgets how effective the rule of law is, perhaps because our governments have often found it inconvenient.
In a federal structure such as ours, state governments are imperative for the smooth functioning of our overall polity. They can't just be wished away.
As fiscal constraints impinge on defence and diplomacy, governments find themselves increasingly homebound, even if diplomats happily travel to summits.
Democratically elected governments meekly requesting giant corporations to pay pitifully low levels of tax on their enormous profits is not a good look.
Governments do have the duty to protect national interest. But we should not be afraid of foreign funding of Indian CSOs, unless malintent can be proved.
New Zealand's food and beverage industry is the lynchpin of the country's prosperity. Which may explain why it has concentrated their governments' minds.
I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.
Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss.
Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.
I look back at history, and some of the worst governments we've ever had, you know one of the first things they ever did? They went after the trade unions.
The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.
Are governments the only entities that can build human spacecraft? No - actually, every human spacecraft ever built for NASA was built by private industry.
The United States should propose partition in Syria. Assad can keep what he controls, and the rebels can form local governments and establish a new entity.
We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.
It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.
Last Thursday, our Supreme Court backed that local governments can co-opt private property, and give it to another private entity, for economic development.
My observation on most people in national governments is that they have very little interest in and very little knowledge of the multinational institutions.
The number one objective is that people who make the investment in digitization, whether they are governments or service providers, get a reasonable return.
Privacy and security are the ultimate shared responsibility, and everyone - including governments, companies, and citizens - have an important role to play.
So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.
While governments are not off the hook, the charity world needs to innovate and find new ways to attract outside investment to boost our social productivity.
Climate change must be approached as an opportunity to transition our economy to a zero carbon future. Business understands this even when governments don't.
The only way governments or would-be governments respond to ills these days is by seeking to lower the temperature... and that tends to mean public spending.
State governments should not have to compete in bidding contests against each other in order to get the necessary supplies to protect and help their citizens.
While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.
Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is the art of strategic lying.
The United States must continue to support efforts made by Middle Eastern governments to educate Muslim youth and steer them away from violent radicalization.
While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.
You can't punish the middle classes for going to drama school - you need to punish the education system and the associative governments for devaluing the arts.
Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.
Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
Any unveiling is also veiling. No matter how transparent our governments want to be, governments will be selectively transparent.
Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments.
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Governments don't control people like they used to.
The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
Research In Motion, the owner of BlackBerry, has been asked by a range of governments to comply with surveillance requirements.
Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.
The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma.
While religious institutions should be able to pick and choose which unions they bless, civil governments should issue marriage licenses to all couples.