Government Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.

The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.

Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

For where's the State beneath the Firmament, That doth excell the Bees for Government?

I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.

If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.

We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees.

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions

I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives.

We have put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenryand said, you don't want the jobs that are available.

The object of government is the welfare of the people.

No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US... But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.

The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

Obviously if there are guns on the street there's going to be more violence. That being said, I happen not to trust the government.

The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any money, but we will show you where you can owe some more.

The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I dont even have to exaggerate.

It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.

Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.

Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.

I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.

People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.