Government Quotes

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

Our own government has become our enemy.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Limited government must come politically, not judicially.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Once the federal government has control of your health care, that means they can dictate your behavior.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

All you need to know is this. You can never go wrong by voting for a bill that fails, or against a bill that passes.

Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.

The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs.

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.

An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.

I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke.

The revolution has been dubbed “The Orange Revolution,” orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government...

They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.

I respect the government of Mexico. I respect the people of Mexico. I love the people of Mexico. I have many people from Mexico working for me. They're phenomenal people.

A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.

Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.

[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.

I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves.

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.

As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.

That putt had more breaks than a government job.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.

The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end.

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.

The reason families need two incomes today is not to support themselves but to support the government.

The primary method by which governments increase their control is by creating fear.