Government Quotes

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.

In the highest government office, you have to be ready to bow out at any time, otherwise you are not a free individual anymore.

In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.

I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.

Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.

Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.

It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.

Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

After the horrific attacks of September 11th, it was evident that our Government needed to be transformed to meet the new challenges of this dangerous world.

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

There are extensive contacts between Saddam Hussein's government and al Qaeda.

By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people.

The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government.

If President Obama really wants to hurt the Syrian government, don't send cruise missiles. He should send over some of his economic advisers.

When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.

There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.

Congress is the Justin Bieber of our government

A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.

Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them.

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

Were aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.

A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility

Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.