Government Quotes

Perhaps it is time to be more careful what we ask government to do, and where we allow it to become part of our lives.

What is immoral for an individual to do, is immoral for a government to do

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

The government has investigated our program of collecting through a generalized fashion, everyone's phone records in the country. And they found that no terrorist case has been thwarted through this.

Let all those in government be warned: They cannot order people to pay for the murder of babies, and betray God Himself, without horrific consequences.

The Bible is the supreme law that all governments must obey.

If the government of this country tramples the faith and values of its citizens, history will hold those in power responsible for the violent convulsions that follow.

The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?

I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building the kind of world in which government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I think the key thing is actually working together.

I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.

Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.

Some of the conflict of interest laws do apply to the president, particularly The Emoluments Clause to "The Constitution," which prohibits any type of benefit from a foreign government.

I think Jason Chaffetz was correct to call for an investigation into the Government Ethics Department in the government for the positions that they've taken in this campaign.

I am a psychologically disabled person and it's difficult for me to get and hold down a job. When I don't work people accuse me of being lazy, taking advantage of government money

The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household.

The atmosphere of fear and security manipulated by the government has converted American citizens into terrorist suspects who are all subject to arbitrary and unreviewable detention and surveillance.

Just a recognition of the reality of decision-making and the state of play in the government of Israel.

We must engage in a whole-of-government approach to combat Russian active measures.

If there are witnesses the government interviewed who suggest other people were involved or that Tim McVeigh was not involved, those are critical matters that would have to be investigated.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong

Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.

Governments everywhere, including here in the Unites States, have created ever-expanding bureaucracies that regulate nearly every aspect of our lives.

They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.

Officially in America we now have a totally arbitrary and limitless government. That is, we have a ‘total government.’ In short, we’ve got totalitarian government.

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.

Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.

We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like - the anti-war government nig... America was a source for division around the world, that what we were doing was wrong.

In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!