Government Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

The object of government is the welfare of the people.

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.

We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.

I think it's a scary thing for a lot of people to think of the government not being involved in their lives, particularly single women.

It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.

I don’t know if you have a child, but what the Chinese government want people to see is like you would want a child to see. Because every film shown in China is one that a child could see.

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

Government stimulates the democrat party.

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

It is a government by the corporations, for the corporations.

Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.

His own government, suing him, that's not Chocolate Sundae!

There was an old Woman who lived in a shoe She had so many children Her government subsidy check came to $4,892.

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.

[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family.

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.

We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.

We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.

It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.