Government Quotes

Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn’t need us? What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable to the political classes.

A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.

As a rule, the Government appoints its friends.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

The only thing government does better than killing is lying and covering things up.

As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.

As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often gives new life to affection.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.

You can't run a government solely on a business basis...Government should be human. It should have a heart.

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.

I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.

The final solution for unemployment is work.

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.

A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.

The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

Government should be a model of inclusion.

If you believe that the job of the federal government is to secure this country, it's really important for you to understand that success in Iraq is part of securing the country.

I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry.

Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred

We are not going into government with Sinn Fein.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate wherever the Government assumes a freer aspect,& the laws favor a subdivision of property.

It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.

Once a person comes to rely on the government for support, that person becomes a socialist through and through.

I love the example of Jefferson because he's willing to murder his government and then he becomes a president and then his face is in a mountain. Just because he exercised his power.

The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them.

It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].

I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious.

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.

I'm glad the government has shut down. Think about it, for the first time in years it's safe to talk on the phone and send emails without anybody listening in.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

I too am a government.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.