Government Quotes

We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments.

You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you into self-censorship.

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our inspiration be found.

It's true that the judgement of what firearms should be prohibited will be decided by the government of the day - and shouldn't it be that way?

Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.

This is for one simple reason: each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government.

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.

After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

The Communist Party and the Soviet Government display constant concern to strengthen the country's defensive might and raise the combat readiness of the Armed Forces.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.

The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe

I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there, that talked about terrorism in the country 20 years ago.

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy.

The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.

The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop them?

Small government is beautiful

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.

The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize.

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.