Institutional Role Quotes

The [Supreme] Court is no longer primarily a legal institution but rather a political and cultural power.

It is not possible for any institutions to interfere in the way parents raise their children.

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.

The Senate's role is to advise and consent. Very little advice has been sought and consent has thus been a problem.

While the interests of the Intelligence community should not be taken lightly, we must remember that they exist to serve, not dictate.

Our University is a state university. It belongs to the people of Wisconsin. The state was not made for the university. The university was established to serve the state.

Government is instituted for those who live under it.

A prevention-based society is one in which every institution, whether they're a hospital or a clinic, or a school, an employer or a faith-based organization, recognizes and embraces the role that it can play in improving health.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

Institutions-government, churches, industries, and the like-have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

Political and legal institutions play a central role in setting the environment that can nurture prosperity and economic growth.

The IMF is a more complicated issue. I think there is a broad sentiment among both the left and the right that the IMF may be doing more harm than good. On the right, there's the view that it represents a form of corporate welfare that is counter to the IMF's own ideology of markets. But anybody who has watched government from the inside recognizes that governments need institutions, need ways to respond to crises. If the IMF weren't there, it would probably be reinvented. So the issue is fundamentally reform.

I too am a government.

The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.

If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge.

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

It sounds so trite to say I make a difference, but I really feel, especially in a community college, I can make a difference.

The Federal Court is telling us that we can’t do what the Federal Government ought to be doing.

Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job.

A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for.

The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.

If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.

When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are accepting an institutional role that requires you to make hard decisions and hard choices, and as a consequence you have to take your moral sense and not put it aside.

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

I’m not the woman president of Harvard, I’m the president of Harvard.