Government Quotes
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.
Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.
OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.
Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.
Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.
You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.
You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government
The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.
I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again.
The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.
It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
The U.S. government is selling $30 billion worth of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Yeah, it's part of a new initiative called, 'Operation Regret This In Five Years.'
In and out of government, I've always been willing to take on complicated, sometimes unpopular, issues and work them through to have a solution.
Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.
The fight against drug trafficking by the Colombian government has been present, and the Americans themselves are the first to recognize that.
I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.
Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.
I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.
This is a powerful message from our government: we will not be intimidated by bombs; we will not be intimidated by poison; this is America, if you're a violent, paranoid lunatic, you must use a gun!
The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief in innovation.
The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.
Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.
Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.