Government Quotes
Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time.
What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.
To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.
I dont know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.
Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together.
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.
The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.
We're not going to default. We just won't default. I mean, there are ways of not defaulting even if you don't raise the debt ceiling, and even if you don't fund the government.
The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.
Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.
If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism.
A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.
I have no plans to seek asylum in the U.S. or elsewhere. I have not thought about citizenship. I love my country, the only problem I have is with the government.
Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.
The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations.
There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.
The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.
However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.
It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.
I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.
I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care
Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.
I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.
I think it should be made clear that the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, they have not got into bed together; they are merely sharing a room.
Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.
In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.
Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.
So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.
If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.
Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.
The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.
Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.
So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.
Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.
If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct.
To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.
I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations - I'm not an anarchist.
Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.
