Government Quotes

The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services.

Do you get a nice monthly check from the government for dwelling on things?

Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

I want to get away from "It's either government or the market." That's a false dichotomy.

Humaneness and justice are the means by which to govern properly. When government is carried out properly, people feel close to the leadership and think little of dying for it.

Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us?

Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is.

Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.

The day will come when the people will make so insistent their demand that there be peace in the world that the Governments will get out of the way and let them have peace.

We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all.

Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade.

Government is not peaceful; it is inherently coercive.

What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.

The Third Way is simply a different route to the same destination. Ultimately, the choice is always between individual human liberty and the power of government to control our lives.

However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions.

Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers".

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

I am obligated to and will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the United States government.

All governments require enemy governments.

Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.

The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.

The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want.

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

The demand of our people in 1980 is not for smaller government or bigger government but for better government.

I had the privilege of chairing Judge Samuel Alito confirmation hearing in 1990. And at that time, he had practiced law for 14 years, but only represented one client, the United States government.

The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that power, and even to be aware of that power.

The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is meaningless... The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.

We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed the public sphere of influence.

So many of the things we're told by the government simply aren't true.

How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and is more and more difficult to check?

The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses.

We have to argue forcefully and demand that the government recognise that these programmes do not prevent - mass surveillance does not prevent acts of terrorism.

We have to call mass surveillance mass surveillance. We can't let governments around the world redefine, and sort of weasel their way out of it by saying this is bulk collection.

Nobody's going to vote for terrorism. So our governments don't have that sort of political pressure to act in a responsible manner when it comes to stewardship of our rights.

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If you sacrifice your values because you're afraid, you don't care about those values very much.

I have had no contact with the Chinese government ... I only work with journalists.

I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law.

These activities can be misconstrued, misinterpreted, and used to harm you as an individual even without the government having any intent to do you wrong.

I'm still working for the government.

We should know at least the broad strokes of the powers that the government's claiming in our name, and using allegedly, on our behalf. And also against us as well.

Going all the way back to Daniel Ellsberg, it is clear that the government is not concerned with damage to national security, because in none of these cases was there damage.

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

I think the public still isn't aware of the frequency with which the cyber-attacks, as they're being called in the press, are being used by governments around the world, not just the US.

I've talked to a lot of pretty good lawyers around the world. I'm non-extraditable. That's the real reason the US government was pissed off, even when I was initially in Hong Kong.

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.