Government Quotes

The government of Rwanda, which is a US client, is intervening massively, and Uganda to an extent. It's almost an international war in Africa. Well, how many people know about this?

But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.

In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War.

The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same time, the public favors a national healthcare program.

You have to love that government, but hate the government that might work in your interest and that you could control. That's an interesting propaganda task, but it's been carried out very well.

Silicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out of the government.

The dynamics of the Taliban now appear to be very different and complex, in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, as they attack governments and mainstream parties.

A bloody good thing, but too late.

The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.

A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.

I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are at least 10 to 15 years ahead of their governments.

I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.

Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people’s money, other people’s safety, other people’s future.

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet than it is to change a government with your vote.

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

We'll run this planet as we please, and if you don't like it, go back where we came from.

No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works.

As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.

There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.

Government was instituted by God to bring His laws to people and to carry out His will and purposes.

A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse.

When any civil government steps outside the mandate authorized by God Almighty, then that government does not have any further claim over its citizens.

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

America is still a free country - nobody is saying it isn't - but we accept that, in the face of discernible risk, or even imaginable risk, the government has an obligation to step in and save us.

You know, if you want to meet a lot of Iraqi leaders, the best places are the hotels in Amman or in London. In general the government here is amazingly unpopular.

Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

Average Americans, middle-class citizens, just feel disenfranchised by our government. And they feel particularly unhappy by what is perceived as business-as-usual politics in Washington.

The present Indian government, however, is neither able or willing to accept the challenge and to provide the leadership in breaking the resistance of urban and rural interests.

From the economy to national security to government ethics, the Republican nominee promised once-in-a-lifetime change if he is elected Nov. 8.

[D]ebt increases that didn't arise either from war or from extraordinary financial crisis are entirely associated with hard-line conservative governments.

[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension fund that also happens to have an army.

America is more than just a place...it's an idea. It's the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not government. We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.

No, I’m not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money.

In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and the other human rights that follow from that primary right.

Either we have the government forcing us and telling us what we have to do, where we have to do it and how much we have to pay for it or we put ourselves in charge - we as consumers, as patients.

When government misleads the country about a terrorist attack, that erodes trust.

Our point is we don't want to sit in the government and tell you what you have to buy [as a health insurance]. We want to make this work so that you have choices, so that we have more competition.

I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.

The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.

I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.

If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.