Government Quotes
Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.
No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.
The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.
Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income.
Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.
In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.
It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high.
This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.
We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.
I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace.
We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.
You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.
Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future threats, including the latest weapon: bio-terror.
Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.
Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.
Turkey is saying that it wants to preserve Sunni dominance in Mosul. Obviously, there, the Kurds, the Shia, the Iraqi government have their own agendas.
If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.
The government only makes restrictive rules, they dont show you what to do so you know, OK, heres where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.
The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets.
Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines.
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.
There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat.
The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals.
The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.
The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.
Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth
But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.
I dream of a Digital India where Government proactively engages with the people through Social Media.
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.
I am a monarch of God's creation, and you reptiles of the earth dare not oppose me. I render an account of my government to none save God and Jesus Christ.
Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.
To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.
A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.
In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people.
