Government Quotes

I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.

Government is dysfunctional.

The government needs the help of industry. But the reality is companies will balance that against their own commercial interest in a very competitive market.

In government procurement, for example, the opportunity German firms have in the United States is 10 times larger than in Canada.

The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country.

It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in Government.

I love all of the government conspiracy stuff. I love all of the shady backroom White House dealings that are going on, and all of the politics involved. That kind of stuff is just fascinating to me.

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

The ideological foundation of today's business schools is that economic control should be shifted out of government hands into those of financial managers - that is, Wall Street.

Governments create money and spend it into the economy by running budget deficits. The paper currency in your pocket is technically a government debt.

The United States Government has fought against creation of an international court to adjudicate the ability of national economies to pay debts.

I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs.

The world's politics are in turmoil, not to mention the Mideast, where the US has mounted attacks from Libya to Iraq to Syria, and ISIS is attacking governments in today's pipeline rivalry.

Bashar Assad clearly doesn't want to hear anything that impugns his government.

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

If people want me to go round and talk to governments and others then I feel that responsibility which is why I am on the road a good deal of the time and why I'm not slowing down.

If we say, 'The government sucks,' we're kind of saying that we suck.

A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom and morality and humanity.

Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address.

I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.

Toupée or not toupée for professional government: that is the hair-raising question created by Donald Trump's candidacy.

I know these days it sounds a little odd, but American governments are very fearful of European reaction. They were afraid we would be considered gunslingers.

Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government.

Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich represent the big government frugal socialist wing of the party. And I represent the true constitutional conservative wing of our party.

You should get to keep every dollar that you earn. That's your money. That's not the government's money.

People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly is not the church.

Today it is time to give the government a new lease of life and this new phase which is as demanding as it is inspiring requires renovated energy and new faces.

By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.

We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.

'Let's Move!' is not about having government tell people what to do, because government doesn't have all the answers.

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?

It's time for the government to scale back, not for people of faith to scale back!

If the government can't track illegals, then let's outsource the job to UPS or FedEx.

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

I think people are tuning out the political class, tuning out the national media, and the American people are just gonna - we're just gonna demand government as good as our people again.

There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.

[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.

It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the automatic response to the oil crisis.

The current oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of governmental mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war.

We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.

I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.