Government Quotes

Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all.

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life.

A well balanced, inclusive approach, is essential for the proper government of any country.

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

Either we pay the government's bills, or we leave them for our kids to pay. It's that simple.

Trump's election means that you have a US government that will no longer do one thing and say another.

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

The private sector is creating a miracle a day, even as the stuff that government attempts is failing left and right.

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion.

But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.

Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.

I think it's a mistake to view North Korea as a government. It really is more like a criminal syndicate.

People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.

Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public.

The government cannot become a bailout organization for companies on the verge of bankruptcy.

Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.

No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!

The government never does anything successfully.

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

The media I've had a lot to do with is lazy. We fed them and they ate it every day.

I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American.

History has shown us that 'Get Things Done' is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government's sake.

There's no expert on this planet who says that the government telling people what to do actually does any good with this issue, this is going to require an effort on everyone's part.

A political satirist's job is to draw blood. I'm not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government.

Iraq's government is at a stalemate.

All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.

Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.

Why is it when times get rough only the people have to look for ways to cut back? Why is this always just absolutely impossible for government?

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

The country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.

If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us?

Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we've got the poor people in.

In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.

I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?

We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can ask other countries to create similar departments.

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.