Government Quotes

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.

Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.

Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.

Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.

Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self.

It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I think there are too many government regulations, laws and taxes on the books.

We're a very religious country; the government's secular.

If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail.

People, your Government has returned to you!

I think, traditionally, when the federal government has gathered statistics, it's been done in silos, so every agency really focuses on the statistics that are important to agency.

America's government has to get the public investments right.

Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies.

Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.

We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.

"Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others.

I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.

No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by the central government itself.

We create the government that screws you, and then you're supposed to thank us for protecting you from it.

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.

One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.

Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections

Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.

Russia has not taken part and is not going to take part in any actions aimed at removing legitimate government.

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.

In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of jihad.

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.

Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

I was particularly talking with respect to aid, because that to me is one area that can make people so dependent, and unfortunately, that dependency starts with the government.

Where do you get the gall to call the people who died in 9/11 technocrats when you sit around and get a $90,000 paycheck from the government you purport to hate?

If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.

Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke.

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.

The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

We need to stand together. Since I was elected leader of our party, we have repeatedly defeated the government over its attacks on living standards.

I didn't defraud the government by taking money that was not mine.