Government Quotes

I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies

No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.

A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires.

US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government.

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

We've also had comments in relation to Donald Trump's comments in respect of investment in Scotland- the UK government has never given Mr Trump awards or appointments.

Nothing in life is guaranteed, including government guarantees.

When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.

The government is worst which governs most.

Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse.

Government is not competent enough to regulate.

It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.

I don't like the term "universal bank." The Chinese government legitimately wants to have a very strong economy. When they talk about SOE reform, they know that's part of it.

[Donald Trump] has done a financial disclosure, which has gone through the Office of Government Ethics. I think he's done that twice. That is his duty under the law. I hear no complaints about that.

Sometimes there are no good choices for government.

I have said explicitly from day one when I announced this policy in, I believe, November of 2011, that I and our government oppose the idea of banning the wearing of the niqab in public.

To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs - the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess.

Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

One role of government is to go where venture capital won't.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.

The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities.

Nothing so weakens government as persistent inflation.

As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.

On my honor, I swear to you, that from my first day in office to the last breath I draw, I will do everything in my power to make you proud of your government.

Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.

Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants anyway.

If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.

'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.

Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.

At the moment we seem to be heading in the opposite direction. However you dress it up, it's pretty obvious who is being affected by the government's cuts.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country."

Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.

A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.

The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.

The only thing that can change Japan is a change in government.

Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.