Government Quotes

In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy.

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.

First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.

Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives are.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

Almost all politicians drive me insane. These people are supposed to be looking after us. What I hate is that we don't speak up enough as a nation and take on the government.

I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control of your lives and it's got to stop!

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men; the least government is the best government.

And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

I think all of our ministers are relatively inexperienced. I'm relatively inexperienced. We're a six-month-old government.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.

Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.

I would have promised those terrorists a trip to Disneyland if it would have gotten the hostages released. I thank God they were satisfied with the missiles and we didn't have to go to that extreme.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs.

As the government is, such will be the man.

It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt.

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.

I did not come to Washington to be loved, and I have not been disappointed.

Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.

When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

We take men for what they are worth - and that is why we hate the government of man by man, and that we work with all our might - perhaps not strong enough - to put an end to it.

Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is cleverer than that, that's the bottom line).

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

Its the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and thats what matters.

America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

Our rights come from nature and God, not government.

I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did. My goal has always been to change people's minds because as long as people demand more government, they will get it.

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God

My basic rule is that I want people who don't want a job in government.

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.