Non-Governmental Quotes

Government does not have a monopoly on compassion.

The strength of America is not in Washington.

There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and people like Margaret Thatcher, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev are throwing their weight behind it. In a world where there's a lot of cynicism and despair, this has a candle-lighting effect.

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set up to assist the fledgling labour movement. It was not a company, nor a statutory board, nor a government department - in fact it did not exist at all as a legal entity. Thus in slightly unorthodox circumstances I became part of that struggle.

Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme poverty.

I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.

It's a uniquely American thing that we as individuals not relying on government but we as individuals pitch in to make our communities better.

People are voluntarily giving money to A.E.I. - there is no government money - because they think the work we do is valuable.

You came out of your mother’s belly without government. You have lived so far without the help of government …. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well looked upon?

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.

I was very excited about a currency that was not controlled by a central government, that could be a free market currency. That was all the incentive I needed to dedicate my life to it.

I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace.

I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with government.

I got involved in 2003, 2004, with a company called Dance4Life out of Holland.

I need to work outside government, on my own.

I do not believe you have to be an elected official to help 'change the world.' In fact, maybe it is easier from the outside.

Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.

At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in the United States you are sure to find an association.