Government Quotes
He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.
I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.
The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.
Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.
Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.
I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.
It's hard to argue with the government. Remember, they are they run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, so they must know a thing or two about satisfying women.
I'm not a big government guy. I believe in private industries taking care of people. I think they do a better job.
People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.
The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.
History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.
At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right.
I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.
You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.
But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs.
We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.
The government can reasonably rely on debt ratings when it forms programs to lend money to buyers of otherwise unattractive debt instruments.
We have to demand that governments live up to their promises and make education a reality for every child.
It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.
When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a role. Every Christian has a role.
Change is not in the hands of government, not in the hands of a leader or guru, and not in the hands of the powerful or wealthy. It is in our hands: the hands of each and every one of us.
The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenryThis is for usThis is for us when our government becomes tyrannical
It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture -- graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use.
The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.
Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.
The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.
I think today you can move ahead working with global companies more than with national governments.
Iran is a rich country, and if the people of this country are poor, it's because of the wrong policies of the government.
Iran, the Iranian government, has mentioned several times that it wouldn't attack Israel.
The government of Iran claims that every two years there are elections. But none of them are free.
No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either
It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.
I never imagined I'd be working with government, or military or politicians or big companies. None of this stuff I'm doing was on any business plan anywhere ever.
In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.
The Word of God proves the truth of religion; the corruption of man, its necessity; government, its advantages.
Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be no great armaments.
Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.
I disapproved of the fact that the government here refused to adopt the few reforms that Gorbachev put over in the field of media and the field of culture.
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.
Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?