Government Quotes

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast but never sinks.

The supply of government exceeds the demand.

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of governing.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient.

Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)

Every nation has the government that it deserves.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.

It seems to me that government is like a pump and what it pumps up is just what we are a fair sample of the intellect the ethics and the morals of the people no better no worse.

Themistocles said "The Athenians govern the Greeks I govern the Athenians you my wife govern me your son governs you."

There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the Internet and censorship unacceptable.

There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women.

Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best, ' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.

We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man.

I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and dreams to their government.

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.

Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have 'banks too big to fail, ' unregulated Internet monopoly, and the evisceration of a dispersed and independent media.

Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster.

While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

I was born in Tamil Nadu. I built HCL in UP. The first computers of the world were built in UP, and the UP government has supported us all through.

I'm really interested in the current tech world because of my brother Michael. Since we were little kids, in the 1970s, he was dealing with the first computers. He works for the government.

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.

The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.

My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.

If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.

The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the independence of the judicial system, which is one of the pillars of maintaining a democratic system.

It was gross enough for fast food restaurants to ban, but apparently our government wants so-called pink slime to be a staple in your kids' lunches.

I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book - our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion - towards nation.

Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.

All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.