Government Quotes

Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.

I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'

If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny

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

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.

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur

As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people.

'Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.

Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.

What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press, but I think it's moving in the wrong direction.

The national government was itself the creature of the States...Yet today it is often made to appear that the creature, Frankenstein-like, is determined to destroy the creators.

In America, we are living in a society which is moving more and more toward an oligarchic form of society where government is dominated heavily by big-money interests.

Setting aside labels, I am somebody who believes that government in a democratic society should be representing the needs of the vast majority of the people who are middle-class and working families.

The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.

I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.