Government Quotes

When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.

I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.

Let me make our goal in this program very clear: jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Our policy has been and will continue to be: What is good for the American worker is good for America.

No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.

Obamacare is not about health care. Obamacare is about the expansion of government and the total loss of freedom.

The media believes that what Obama was gonna do when he took over, go dictator immediately, that was what this country needs, finally central government running everything.

Islam is the religion of peace. We say that jokingly. That's actually the position of the US government. It's rooted in political correctness and fear and a number of other convoluted things.

The people of America at some point are gonna have to realize that relying on government to fix everything is foolhardy.

I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.

What sort of government is it that permits so many children to go to school hungry, without even a morsel of food in their stomachs? It cannot be! It must not be!

Royal titles ceased to be recognised by the Indian government in 1971. The title of Nawab and Maharaja are not recognised by the Indian government anymore.

Many trees could be saved if the government stopped printing tax forms.

The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.

Governments are based on power, companies are based on goodwill, which allows them to invest in the future.

No government may remain strong by ignoring the commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai.

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.

We're very focused in on outcomes for government with respect to the amount of tax that goes in and the amount of expenditures that go out.

Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.

Businesses should be focused on business and social responsibility should be government responsibility.

Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.

The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world.

An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.

I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then believe that our government may be pure and perpetual.

It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so.

It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.

I don't own encryption, Apple doesn't own encryption. Encryption, as you know, is everywhere. In fact some of encryption is funded by our government.

Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the government and insurance companies.

Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

It's lovely to be old. I've got age, experience and zero personal ambition. No body could corrupt me by anything: possibly a job in the government, a peerage, a quango, I don't want any of it.

It is often too late by the time the government reacts.

Governments have a favorite phrase: “lean and mean.” But they’ve been made very, very fat for corporate interests.

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.