Government Quotes

It's businesses versus big government. We don't need big government. We need a more efficient, lean government, and that's exactly the kind of government we intend to deliver.

John Boehner chose a huge gavel. I think somebody's compensating for his small government.

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

A free government is of all others the most energetic.

[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.

When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.

It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out.

America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.

I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on everybody.

So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.

Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.

I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.

It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.

We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.

If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.

It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.

Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.

There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.

Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.

Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.

You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.

The population has to be educated about how the government actually works.

I don't think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.

The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They're not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them.

It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.

In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.

I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

[Giving welfare to poor people] is the equivalent of the government sending [fat people] a jumbo bag of Bugles in the mail twice a month.

“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”

Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it.

We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.

Jihadis have a better bureaucracy than India.

The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.

Many Sunnis joined Islamic State because they felt they were being treated poorly. Winning back their trust is the primary task of the new government. That will be difficult, but it is possible.

Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.

Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there's still a one-party system and strong censorship.

The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.