Government Quotes

My idea of government support was, you supply me with hospitals, schools and the environment to do well and that will do me fine. But do not poke your nose in my business.

How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?

The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission.

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.

At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

Nature's Laws are the invisible government of the earth.

That is the best Government, which best provides for war.

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

I welcome the signing by the presidential candidates Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Dr. Ashraf Ghani of an agreement on the formation of a government of national unity in Afghanistan.

Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.

Government . . . is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection.

Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.

Alliances are part of our destiny as a nation, part of our future as a nation and this is what guides me in my policy, what guides my government as a whole.

The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.

[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.

Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.

I would have put more emphasis on bringing working class people together to fight for a government that works for all of us.

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.

War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government.

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

[John Howard] led the Government. They had the numbers, and just basically automatically went along with the Americans.

I need money. I have a staff of 30, and four houses, never mind the government, to support.

Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?

You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name.

Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.

Self-government means self support.

The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.

It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters of personal choice.

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn’t poor.

These people really aim very badly.

One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.

We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.

How is it that we can militarily overthrow a military government like Iraq, yet we can't militarily keep illegalities (drugs and aliens) from crossing our borders?

Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.