Government Quotes

I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated.

The less [government] the better.

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree.

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

We certainly see opportunities in Vietnam for talented people to have jobs in the IT sector, including the improvement of the efficiency of the economy and the government.

Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.

We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.

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

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

Rand Paul and Chris Christie both said vaccinations should be a choice, not a government mandate. Because when have Republicans ever told people what they could do with their own bodies?

The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.

My government is in no sense anti-Russian.

It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.

The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.

Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death.

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.

The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.

The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society...

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.

Limited government must come politically, not judicially.

Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in controlling what is or is not moral.

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.

Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

Our own government has become our enemy.

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens.

For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a new way.

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

We must never violate principles. We must never initiate violence. And we should never harm the innocent. But at some point, unless governments back off, we have to stop being nice.

So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting!

Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

Somewhere at the top of the pyramid in the invisible government are a few sinister people who know exactly what they are doing: They want America to become part of a worldwide socialist dictatorship.

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

This American government has become very adept at attaching labels to people who defend themselves, so that the general population in America will condone their behavior.

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.