Government Quotes

"Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.

I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.

We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.

If the customer loves you, the government will have to love you.

As governor, Im spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

If the situation in Zimbabwe continues to deteriorate, Britain will argue for Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in March.

We can't depend on consumers to spend money they don't have on stuff they don't need, so the government has to do it for them

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.

The more freedoms Americans lose, the more dangerous government becomes.

It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people could get off at any stop along the way.

As soon as people drop the reins on government, government will leash the people.

The people = government doctrine is equivalent to political infantilism -- an agreement to pretend that the citizen's wishes animate each restriction or exaction inflicted upon him.

Why is it so hard to see that when America had high savings, low taxes and minimal government, the economy grew like a week, and today when we have just the opposite, the economy is shrinking.?

Government regulators are another name for police.

Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.

The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.

People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.

Most everything government does is worse than useless.

The government endangers us with our own money.

The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure.

Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.

Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.

The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

The Iraqi government and most Iraqis understand that they have to bring back the Sunni Arab 20, 25 percent of the population. It won't work with these Shia militias running amok in these areas.

In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get things done.

[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government.

The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.

A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.

If men were angels, there would be no need of government.

It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will admit, and all that human prudence can devise?

The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government.

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant usurpation.

The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision.

I wrote Pay Any Price as my answer to the government's campaign against me.

Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.

All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.

We've seen the volatility at dollar-yen, U.S. Treasurys, JGBs (Japanese government bonds), German bunds.

I know the President [Barack Obama]. I like him and respect him. That does not mean I agree with all of our government's policies, whether they come from Democrats or Republicans.

When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.

The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.

But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.

We must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work.

Government cannot be all things to all people.

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

[If Quebec became sovereign] there would be one level of government that would be missing, one less level of government. The municipality would become the second level.