Government Quotes

It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.

I can finally get married! Yay government! So proud of you.

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.

Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected...Government and true Christianity are inseparable.

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.

Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.

Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.

It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see on this earth.

I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.

This administration is totally colorblind.

In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing its best to become an inconvenience.

Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.

You have to ask yourself a question: "What's the purpose of the private sector - to support government?" And if the answer is, "Yes, it is," then you're a Democrat.

Liberals measure compassion by counting the number of people receiving government help.

More and more Congressmen now stay in Washington all year-round because they can't stay at home under the laws they've passed.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.

For the first time in over a decade, your state government is doing what you do every day at home-spending what it takes in and saving for a rainy day.

I've been working hard on a new song, it's titled "Frozen Piggy Pudding". It's about how the government is full of pigs who eat pudding all day. Oh look a frisbee, allo' govna.

I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.

[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.

ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.

There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.

Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the least government interference with the market - contrary to rhetoric.

Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!

It's a bit much describing it as a moral challenge from a government that's tripled the deficit and added $100 billion to net debt.

As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

To create the protection for the corporations, government is actually growing bigger than ever before, in every part of the world. Yet it’s growing extremely thin as a protector of people.

In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing' a surprising but welcome pregnancy

Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus.

One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

America's remaining wild horses are under aggressive attack and rapidly disappearing from government-managed, citizen-owned wilderness spaces.

If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.