Government Quotes

I'd like to think that we've certainly strengthened the position of some of our government businesses.

Creating investment, growing the economy and creating jobs is what this government wants to do.

Jobs are a key essential in the Budget.They are government's number one priority and the Budget is going to reflect that.

The government businesses, they all operate in the Tasmanian economy and as the economy strengthens the demand for services in those areas strengthens.

Anything government or politics is always exciting for me.

And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of this young boy to end in a civilized manner that is best for him.

The British government is a murder machine.

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless.

Once the government runs out of foreign and private sector bidders for new Treasurys, the Federal Reserve will be the only buyer, and the hyper-inflation cat will be completely out of the bag.

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

In a free society men and women should not be prevented by Government from seeking medical remedies which they believe will be effective.

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

The next adventure is the government, a government of change.

I reiterate that the rigor and credibility brought to the world by Monti's government are for us a point of no return.

Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.

It should not be the government running the economy.

The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule.

Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world.

The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.

I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this.

[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird!

It makes sense in that environment that you would hold on in the U.S. government to the people who know their way around this particular block.

If you want to make the government take a religious side, then make the case, it should be Christian republic.

if you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.

Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them.

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

I think most Americans are against illegal surveillance of their emails and telephone calls by the government.

We [the U.S.] think nothing... of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.

Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.

I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.