Government Quotes

The admitted right of a government to prevent the influx of elements hostile to its internal peace and security may not be questioned, even where there is not treaty stipulation on the subject.

I have a Congress on my hands.

We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

The Democratic Party might be called the Takings Coalition, made up of groups that want the government to take from American citizens -- usually cash -- and keep it for itself.

The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.

The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what's going on. I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on.

The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield them that which they will hereafter despise the donors for granting them.

I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.

We as the American people have to hold ourselves accountable because we didn't hold our government accountable.

American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances

They've lost their minds.

The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.

The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.

The act of getting married, stripped of the necessity to have a secure setting to raise children, seems to me no less grim than registering your emotions with the government.

The last thing the Province needs is a minority government

I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.

No, a euro referendum will not be part of a government programme if we get the chance to form one.

I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon, too.

The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans.

Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?

While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

A certain amount of taxes is of course indispensable to carry on essential government functions. Reasonable taxes for this purpose need not hurt production much.

As the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage.

Nowadays, the media have to be there to keep you from asking too many questions, from getting together with other people who might want to do the Jeffersonian thing and call out the government.

There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.

Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.

When the U.S. government stops wasting our resources by trying to maintain the price of gold, its price will sink to...$6 an ounce rather than the current $35 an ounce.

Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction.

The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.