Government Quotes

I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.

I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.

Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?

Yes, and you should question your government.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.

I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.

You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients.

Government-run schools can't instill morals and character.

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

The reform of government needs to continue.

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.

With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.

I officially designated every US ambassador on earth to be my personal human rights representative, and to have the embassy be a haven for people who suffered from abuse by their own government.

Despite Russia's move to raise interest rates this week, the value of the ruble has continued to crash. Russia's economy is so bad, Edward Snowden had to put government secrets on Craigslist.

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.

Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a leak to embarrass the bureaucracy and get them to do something about it.

You make deals in business and in government if you're smart.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

We can say, "if you want government money, you have to make this data public - you have to share it."

I don't expect the government to solve my problems, but at least I expect them to understand it.

Government should steer, not row.

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public uses of private resources.

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.

When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy!

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

I believe we've... we've worked very hard with the Iraqis to build a better place ever since the fall of Saddam's government.

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.

What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.

[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.

If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?

Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.

It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.

The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.