Government Quotes

I have come to believe that politicians are in the business of 'marketing' their product to the public, by exaggerating threats and over-selling government solutions.

When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer.

John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying the bill, it's on your kids and grandkids.

Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.

Any cooperation that doesn't go through the Syrian government is not legal. If it's not legal, we cannot cooperate with, and we don't recognize and we don't accept.

There are people who believe in Egypt that I - I'm actually - I'm getting paid by external powers and external intelligence entities in order to use satire to bring down the government.

Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.

The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.

Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.

Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.

I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.

The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.

Trust is a two way street. If your government does not trust you, how can you trust your government?

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.

A U.S. Senator should have the same right as a member of the Knesset...to disagree with any government when its actions may not be in the United States' interest.

The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way.

When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals in securing government largess, rather than in winning customers.

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

We do not have elections. But the great majority of the Cuban people supports its government.

There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved.

Republicans don't believe government works, and get into it to prove it will fail. Same with strippers and relationships.

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.

Think you have a low opinion of government? You should see government's opinion of you!

Let's keep people with weird religious faiths out of government. Especially those who have a weird religious faith IN government.

I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. And I don't think any Conservative government would have done it.

The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations.

I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon at 15% isn't.

If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out - either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time.

They engage in activities aimed at bringing them [clients] to Jesus. That's fine, but it shouldn't be done with government money.

There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives

Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse.

The government bugged the men's room in the local disco lounge.

I am asking all Americans, Republicans, Independents and Democrats, to join us in our campaign to defeat the corrupt establishment and give our government back to the people. It's going to happen.

For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare.

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.

Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

Compassion comes from the heart, not the government.

If experience has taught me anything, its not to put ANYTHING past people in government.

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.

Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.