Government Quotes

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.

The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.

It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

If you're looking for ways to cut waste in government, you can start with John Prescott.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

What a man thinks is no concern of the government.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

Government Steals from the needy and gives to the greedy

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.

[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

That government that governs least governs best.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists - and every government that supports them.

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.