Government Quotes

Socialisms not a word that I use. I say social democracy because I dont think the government needs to own all the means of production.

Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence.

Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.

I believe we're past the point where the government or the private sector can solve all problems, it's all about partnerships.

I vote Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people.

I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!

The Republicans just want to bankrupt the government. They think that the government should do nothing, except maybe support the military. So terrorism is perfect for them.

This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government control.

If the government can't get the economy moving again, they have a lot of fundamental problems.

I think the one thing that's going on here is that people are saying, uh-oh, the Chinese economy might be slowing more than we thought and the government is having a hard time stimulating it again.

As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do and I'm used to that. I'm used to not having my government tell me my life is going to be restricted because I'm female.

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

He (George W. Bush) is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all.

The government could take away all the drugs in the world and people would spin around on their lawns until they fell down and saw God.

No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

"Government" is the name we give to the things we choose to do together.

The idea that the United States government would have to figure out what to do about the headscarf is simply ludicrous. We don't get involved in that.

Whenever I tour my district and I ask small businesspeople 'what can I do to help?,' they tell me to just get government out of the way and they'll create the jobs and grow on their own.

The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions.

My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.

As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that's the main reason I'm here is a back up for the President if anything happens to him.

As a government lawyer, Samuel Alito wrote that he personally believe very strongly the Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion.

I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.

The Government will not abandon the free conversion of the rouble

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

All my life I've worked to try to correct and perfect our system of government to make it more fair.

When leaders of a professional team perform a scan, they examine the trends dominating their customer demographics, education, government policy, and especially their competition.

When it comes to reconstruction, before we turn to the American taxpayer, we will turn first to the resources of the Iraqi government and the international community.

It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.

Both America and Britain understand that governments must be responsive to everyday working people, that governments must represent their own citizens.

At home, we have begun the monumental task of returning the government back to the people on a scale not seen in many, many years.

[Me attacked by media] is nothing more than an attempt to destroy our movement and for the Clintons to keep their corrupt control over our government.

It's a sad day in America when foreign governments with deep pockets have more influence in our own country than our great citizens.

This [2016] is not simply another four-year election. This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not we the people reclaim control over our government.

We're going to establish a procedure where people can leave the line, go outside, take care of themselves and the government's gonna pay.

Hillary Clinton has been outsmarted and outplayed worse than anybody I've ever seen in any government whatsoever.

I've proposed a contract with the American voter that will give the government back to the people.

To drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, D.C., I started by impose ago five-year lobbying ban on white house officials, and a lifetime ban on lobbying for a foreign government.

My administration inherited many problems across government and across the economy. To be honest, I inherited a mess.

Frankly our government has no idea what they're doing on many, many fronts, folks.

Hillary Clinton wants to put the government totally in charge of your health care despite the fact it's no good. It'll be much more expensive than even today.

In America, we will have a government of, by and for the people.

The government of Mexico is terrific. I don't blame them for what's happened. I don't blame them for taking advantage of the United States. I wish our politicians were so smart.

She [Hillary Clinton] wants to go to a single-payer plan, which would be a disaster...she wants to go to single-payer, which means the government basically rules everything.

I will proudly promote our system of government and our way of life as the best in the world, just like we did in our campaign against communism during the Cold War.

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.