Government Quotes

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.

I'd like to do a song that I wrote today about our government's increasing infringement on our right to privacy, but the lyrics mysteriously disappeared from my guitar case.

I don't have any insight or understanding on anything about the government. All I think is that it's stupid - which is the one perspective that's almost completely lacking in Washington.

The Spanish government, having run completely out of money, secretly sold the Pyrenees to China, and is now separated from France only by traffic cones.

If you ask what's best for the country, vote Republican. If you ask how will you get more money from the government, vote Democrat

Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States

It is scary to live in the Obama era with its use of government to suppress dissent

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

Government is an art, not a science, and an adventure, not a planned itinerary.

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.

the highest priority for any government concerned with its own future and the peace of the world community ought to be the facilities it provides for the care and nurturance of young children.

The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives.

As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.

Iran is an anti-Semitic, terrorist government.

Government is a kind of legalized pillage.

Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion

I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite of government, and not because of it.

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin.

Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.

I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.

For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

You know what I like about the American form of government? They've worked things out so that you're never far from a 7-Eleven.

If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.

Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

There is no right government except good government.

Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.

I believe the role of government is to stand side by side with our citizens to help them realize their dreams, not tell citizens how to live their lives.

Influence is not government.

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.

Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society.

Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.