Government Quotes

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon.

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

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

The greatest source of America's generosity is not our government; it's the good heart of the American people.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Government cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever.

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

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.

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

That government that governs least governs best.

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

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

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

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

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms.

I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.

It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.

Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and we are going to continue to push the federal government to do that.

We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this," you may ask? Because it'll be fun.

Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.

Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.

It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment.

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.

The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

When you start peeling the onion and uncovering layers and layers of inequity that have been subsidized by government, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?

Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice

Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us.

The Government chose to give peace a chance. The Government chose to do something to achieve it.