Government Quotes

We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen's privacy begins.

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn't work that way.

Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

Where do find the most persecuted Christians in the world?... in the classrooms of our government schools, where the assault is not upon the body, but the soul.

When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom; we have surrendered its only real meaning, and we will not be free again until we get it back.

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .

Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.

I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.

I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

I have a hard time imagining a country or a government where I would say, "Oh, this is good," where I could live under a government that I respect for a day or a week, even to see what it feels like.

As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust.

[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on permanent causes of expence.

Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite . . . to the attainment of the ends of such power.

The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far as its necessities might require.

A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all manner of inconveniences.

[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . .

I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.

Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder.

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

The only legitimate government in the world, is the Iranian government.

There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.

Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.

The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.

I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

Coolidge showed that the best government was the one that got out of the way. When he refrained, the economy grew, the Ku Klux Klan faded, and Americans got Model A's and automobiles.

Today we care about budgets more than anything. Our American future hangs on the ability of government to cut budget.

Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.

Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.

It is the responsibility of Afghanistan's new government to gain better control over the country's administration and to resolutely fight the drug trade and corruption.

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me

On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.