Central Government Quotes - Page 2

• Just take Kosovo: back then, UN bodies decided that Kosovo should become independent of Serbia and that the interests of Serbia's central government had to be subordinated. You can read that in all the records, also in the German ones.

  Vladimir Putin

  Independent, Government, Body

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest with the central government.

  Leonard Read

  Responsibility, Government, People

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• The precondition of success and entry to the top politics is primarily one's will - that is, making one's own decisions, because it means having to leave your home or move your family, quit social networking and build new contacts, [since] central governments are seated in capitals.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Moving, Mean, Home

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The Sunnis continue to see themselves, possibly for nostalgic reasons, as the most influential group and want a stronger central government - quite unlike minorities in other countries. The circumstances here are far more complex than many people in Washington imagine.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Country, Government, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I returned to Kabul after a 27-year absence. I came away with some optimism but not as much as I had hoped for. The two major issues in Afghanistan are a lack of security outside Kabul (particularly in the south and east) and the powerful warlords ruling over the provinces with little or no allegiance to the central government. The other rapidly rising concern is the narcotic trade which, if not dealt with, may turn Afghanistan into another Bolivia or Colombia.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Powerful, Years, Two

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• India knows that the subject of Land is not with the Central Government and the Centre does not require lands. All rights relating to land are with the states.

  Narendra Modi

  Rights, Government, Land

  Source: www.deccanchronicle.com

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• At least Germany and France have recently criticized that the Ukrainian central government has limited certain parts of the autonomy regulations to three years. They were supposed to last permanently.

  Vladimir Putin

  Years, Government, Regulation

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.

  Ai Weiwei

  Government, Understanding, Culture

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• Anything that is missing in the implementation of the Minsk Agreement is - without any exception - up to the Kiev central government of Ukraine. You cannot demand something of Moscow that, in fact, the rulers in Kiev have to deliver. The most important aspect is the constitutional reform, Point 11 of the Minsk Agreement.

  Vladimir Putin

  Ukraine, Agreement, Government

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• When I speak of Team India I believe that the foundation for India's development will not be the single pillar of the Central Government, but 30 pillars comprising the Central Government and all our States.

  Narendra Modi

  Team, Believe, Government

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• The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much so that he is not aware of it; enhanced Executive power to the point of reducing Congress to innocuity; and enabled the central government to bribe the states, once independent units, into subservience. No kingship in the history of the world ever exercised more power than our Presidency, or had more of the people's wealth at its disposal.

  Frank Chodorov

  Independent, Rights, Government

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.46, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Running, Government, Law

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June, 2009.

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• Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, War, Agency

  1956 'Brave New World Revisited', in Esquire.

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• The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Government, Way, Blind

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• The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

  Mia Love

  Government, Limits, Said

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• America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.

  Jim Leach

  Country, America, Government

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• The Chinese central government will slowly and steadily lose authority while regional armies [gain power]. The Western powers are going to take sides to protect their investments - they have put billions of dollars into Shanghai. Their fear is that [these investments] are going to be expropriated by a warlord from the interior who will sweep down on Shanghai. They will try to form alliances with warlords to protect their concessions, and there will be a huge flow of weapons into China.

  George Friedman

  Army, Government, Chinese

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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