Government Quotes

It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.

I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup against the country's democratic institutions.

Who do you think is more difficult to face: oppressive governments, or oppressive societies?

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

In Northern Ireland, people said there would never be a solution. But once people begin to have the political will and force their governments to sit down, it can happen.

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

They think democracy - I used to say "damn the democracy", because it's not a stable government.

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

When is the last time government admitted it might have made a mistake and canceled a program?

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

All present-day governments are fanatically committed to an easy money policy.

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?

Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people.

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

The interventionist policy (big government) provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense of the rest of society.

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.

If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.

The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.

Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.

When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.

Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.