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The Swiss Federal Gouvernment - Main site of the federal authorities of the Swiss Confederation. Directory of departments, agencies and institutions.
Register of Helvetic Administration and Public Services Online - Index of Swiss gouvernment agencies and administrations online - IDHEAP.
Gouvernments on the WWW: Switzerland - Structured, multilingual index of Swiss government sites by G. Anzinger.
European Integration Bureau - Swiss European integration policy. Information on the bilateral agreements.
The Swiss Federal Council - Federal government is headed by the seven members of the Federal Council. The members are elected by parliament for a period of four years. Each heads a department of the federal administration.
The Swiss Parliament - Official site of Switzerland's parliament: National Council (Nationalrat, Conseil national) and Council of States (Ständerat, Conseil des Etats). With guide to the bicameral system, schedule of sessions, composition of the chambers.
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs - Key points of Swiss foreign policy as well as current press releases.
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams Government "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous Government We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Government "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln Government The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow. -- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Government Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Government "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard Government I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. -- Malcolm Forbes America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Government The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Government To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford Government He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars -- Les Brown Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman Government I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry Government If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Government Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France Government "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid Government Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Government Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli Government He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra Government I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon Government No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender Government The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Government Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Government
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