Government Quotes

You can't go by what the governments say or do. It's not the governments. It's on the street where there's more hatred of Americans in Britain than in France.

All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.

A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.

Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!

President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.

Conferences are just like the poor and the Democrats, they will always be with us.

If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.

A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.

Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.

Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.

The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.

Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We - the American people - we are the solution.

We simply cannot afford to give the reigns of government so someone who will double down on trickle down

If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country.

When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.

Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government.

When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.

Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.

Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?

Let them obey that knows not how to rule.

I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.

Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

The US government is like an ocean liner, not like a speed boat. It's harder to turn around than people might think.

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.

I felt that we had become a society ruled by sectors, by interest groups: Whoever's connected to the Israeli government gets more.

I would like to see the Iraqi government guarantee social insurance for the Yazidi women who were enslaved and to recognise their status as prisoners of war.

The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the Americans put in place.

What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to speak about a withdrawal.

Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.

The government is not doing anything to help the country to heal. The government is just making cosmetic changes.

The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet.