It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and that's what matters.
Peter Benenson

Last Thursday, our Supreme Court backed that local governments can co-opt private property, and give it to another private entity, for economic development.
Cliff Stearns

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
Abba Eban

Living in this manner also gave them the opportunity to locate targets and develop methods of attack that would make the most impact on the population, infrastructure, and governments of these areas.
Jo Bonner

Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is world government.
Jan Tinbergen

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.
Henry W. Kendall

More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.
Albert Bushnell Hart

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.
Bianca Jagger

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.
Shirin Ebadi

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
Edward Tufte

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
Joseph Conrad

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.
Jenny Shipley

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.
Graham Greene

Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.
Arthur Keith

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
Kate Adie

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Adrian Cronauer

Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security.
Kit Bond

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.
Robert Toombs