Government Quotes

The United States government does not negotiate with terrorists.

The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

[People] don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.

The British government has urged its citizens to abstain from alcohol at least two days a week. Or to make it easier to remember, whenever they brush their teeth.

The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've decided to call it Fox News.

The Senate has sent President Obama a spending bill that gives the government enough money to keep going for two weeks. Our Congress has the financial planning skills of a college sophomore.

Democratic openings that come about in that way - the overthrow of a totalitarian government by external powers - it makes it really hard to make those first steps toward democracy.

The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world.

Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it

They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services or curb crime

You're going to end up with a government in Egypt that is concerned about the precious Palestinians, the same way we ought to be concerned about both precious Palestinians and precious Jews.

Critics say Arnold has no previous government experience, but advisers say he's clearly the most qualified Austrian, ex-Mr. Universe in the race.

As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true.

The country is in some trouble, because the media, which is supposed to provide a check and balance on government, has decided to stop doing that as a collective entity.

It's the government's job to come in and help their citizens and guide their citizens to a brighter future and unfortunately in America that's not what's happening.

If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it.

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.

Only a government that does not trust its citizens would refuse them the right to bear arms.

Self-rule means that China must stop its intensive effort to colonize Tibet with Chinese settlers and must allow Tibetans to hold responsible positions in the government of Tibet.

I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

From day one, my mantra has been - and will continue to be - that as a government we were there to serve the people, not the other way around.

Government is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money.

NSA, the only part of government that actually listens.

After the 9/11 attacks, I dutifully stocked up on rolls of duct tape and N-95 masks, as the government recommended.

I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.

An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.

We are kidding ourselves if we don't think of the drug business as a legitimate business. It's what funds governments. It's too much money to ignore.

WikiLeaks serves as a back-up for those who want to tell the truth about the inner workings of government when the mainstream media is not willing or taking too long to publish.

I think that President George W. Bush was ahead of most of his government, in realizing that Putin was not the person we thought he was.

Obama needs Facebook to help him get reelected. Facebook needs Obama to keep them out of trouble with Congress and countless government agencies.

Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will' undertake its safety, and nothing can save it, if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.

I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'

The best way to understand this whole issue is to look at what the government does: it takes money from some people, keeps a bunch of it, and gives the rest to other people.

In foreign countries such as Italy, the government puts strict-looking speed limit signs everywhere, but nobody ever sees them because light does not travel fast enough to catch the Italian drivers.

People are afraid to own their own homes. People are afraid their own government will catch them fixing their houses.

People in government are self-interested just like people in business.

When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.

In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.

The government is supposed to provide a level playing field where people can compete fairly. It's not supposed to cut deals with one company or another to do so.

We actually have to have a government. We have to have people confirmed and put into office.

I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues.

When it comes to government policy, can we please stop using words like "architect"? Telling people what to do is not a skilled profession.

The most difficult challenge that Governments have faced since the dinosaurs roamed the earth.