Government Quotes

In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.

There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.

In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will leave by inauguration day.

A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.

If I said what I was really thinking about this f**ked up world, the government would assassinate me like all the other people they've killed.

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

I have tremendous confidence in the ability of government institutions and the American people to do what is right to make sure that our democracy stays on the right track.

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake and eat it, too.

Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest with the central government.

There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power.

His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.

Accidents have already become an important factor restricting the development of a harmonious economy and society, and have attracted the strong attention of the Chinese government and society

I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to all people.

If you are going to stick to the truth then you need to keep your distance from the Chinese government and indeed to any form of politics, including the politics of democratic countries.

The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.

Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.

We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck.

I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.

The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.

The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.

We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games.

If you're someone from the government and you meet people from other countries, you want to know who you're dealing with. It's the same for them [in Valerian].

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.

In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.

What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.

The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.

Under the gold standard gold is money and money is gold. It is immaterial whether or not the laws assign legal tender quality only to gold coins minted by the government.

I don't think I've been too optimistic. The government believes the contraction will be around 1.5 per cent, as the central bank said. However, we're waiting to see the Commission estimate.

I think there is a lot of fat in the government.

Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.

One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.

To me, conservative means believing in a minimum amount of government and a maximum amount of freedom - and keeping government out of people's lives and business - and leaving people alone.

I don't like government, it's just that simple.

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.

You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time.

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.