Government Quotes

The priority for my government is that there will be development for everyone, equally.

Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.

There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.

Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.

Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition.

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

How long can interest rates stay negative? Think about this. Not only are you lending your money to governments, but you're paying them interest for the privilege of doing so.

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.

Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.

Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.

If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.

A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.

The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.

Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.

I don't think any Australian will ever forget, there will never be a Carbon Tax under a government I lead.

Women should not need a permission slip from government to take care of their own reproductive health.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's free market enthusiasms.

As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.

A default of the US government would not only be very harmful here, it would probably send the country back into deep recession, but it just might crash the international financial system.

People are studying whether there's a cause of action that competitors, for example, would have if they're harmed by these foreign government payments.

The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.

If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.

I believe in making government as Ronald Reagan said. Not the distributor of gifts and privilege but once again the protector of our liberties.

Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient.

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.

A state that privatizes most of its functions will inevitably defend itself by employing its own people as mercenaries

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Governments never supply prosperity. At best, they can facilitate it, by allowing the free enterprise system to work. Usually they suppress it.

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.

If government goes beyond securing liberty and instead violates it through regulation, redistribution, and planning, then citizens are victims of legal plunder.

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government

Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day.

Government has no resources of its own. Government can only give to us what it has previously taken from us.

Ironically, in the full-fledged transfer society, where governments busy themselves redistributing income by means of hundreds of distinct programs, hardly anyone is better off as a result.

[The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared.

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.

Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.

Israeli government & the neocons want US to bomb Iran.

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the size of the deficit, it's the size of government's claim on our economy.

I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.