government autonomy Quotes

In Turkey also, for a long time, the military was the decisive force but in the past 10 years they have backed off somewhat and the civilian government has gained more independence and autonomy even to shake up the military command. In fact, it even arrested several high-ranking officers [for interfering in governmental affairs]. Maybe Pakistan can move in a similar direction.

We need steel spines, not weak knees when it comes to political independence in the Department of Justice.

If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.

I am no proponent of a theocracy. I am a secularist. I want an independent Iraqi government, not a lackey of Tehran.

We deserve to elect our own government.

I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves.

Well, we're [USA] not looking for an ally; what we're looking for is a stable, democratic government that is not beholden to anyone in the region and is able to be secure within its own borders and have its own policy.

I hope that we increasingly shift power to local governments.

A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.

If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.

I personally thank Rahul Gandhi. He has given me complete free hand in running the government.

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.

It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.