Government Quotes

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

We believe in a government strong enough to use words like "love" and "compassion" and smart enough to convert our noblest aspirations into practical realities.

We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need.

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.

If we have a food supply that we can't trust, that has enormous implications for the way we view government, for the way we trust business, and for our international trade relations.

Once the Government Accountability Office did a review of food safety systems in other countries and found many things about those food safety systems that were better than ours [American].

The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question.

The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

I think the Mexican government is going to be forced to at least be more aware of what goes on in the [Donald] Trump administration than they were in the [Barack] Obama administration.

People's position on immigration, once they get "sophisticated," and they rise to the higher levels of commentary or government, it's usually determined solely by economics. And not by anything else.

The Democrats have this high level of expectation of what government can do.

Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive.

Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership.

The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.

I proclaim publicly that I favor ending government involvement in education.

I think we need government to play a part in having a health policy that makes nursing care available for the increasing numbers who are going to need it.

In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.

If cooperation among governments were the superior concept for progress in Europe, I'd be onboard immediately. But the problem is that cooperation isn't working.

If the Chinese business community takes the Declaration of Human Rights, core labor standards, and environmental standards seriously, the government of China will take them far more seriously, too.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

When you give the government an inch, they take a mile.

I'm not interested to change about the government. I'm interested to change the conditions for the people. So, yes, I talk a lot. But I think this is the only way for Italy in this moment.

Italy is the worst country for bureaucracy around the world. And this is very important. If we have a system with a lot of politicians the consequence is 63 government change in 70 years.

Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries.

Individual believers are not to usurp the role of civil government and judge people who are offensive.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.

I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with government.

Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.

The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!

All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the bad ones cannot!

If there is a rotten government in a democracy, the main reason for this is that there is a rotten majority over there!

The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!

After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society.

The U.N. is an American-based bastion of foreign spies. Russia has more spies in the U.S. than there are members of the F.B.I.

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.

People in the UK will say that the design community in the US is much more coherent than other countries. It has no government support at all, so it's really like a grass roots thing.

Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.

I think fully, that an independent candidate can't win in this country. The Constitution is structured for basically a two-party government, a two-party race.