Government Quotes

It has been observed, [that for the federal government] to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised.

Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate.

We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative.

It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

I tell people view the federal government as a source of entertainment. It's a lot easier.

Your federal government needs your money so that it can perform vital services for you that you would not think up yourself in a million years.

Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the things that the Constitution allows.

Big government squashes the human spirit

Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.

The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

The [EU] Council of Ministers will have far more power over the budgets of member states than the federal government in the United States has over the budget of Texas.

The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.

In any government bureaucracy, they are not working for you but for the mythical blob called the 'public sector,' which is really nothing but a stash of stolen cash divided among the robber class.

Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.

Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the few, and long-term gain for all.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.

I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people

I am the federal government!

Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

The Government's first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust.

It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities.

[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.

What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.

The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.

I don't know people who don't say 'boy, the government is working better now.'

What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.

How can I know who's PM or in government in Sweden? It's been 40 years since I moved abroad! Oh!

In California, the fabulously rich support the poor with government jobs, paid for by the middle class which is now living in Arizona.

One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning.

But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by.