Government Quotes

Governments cannot require individuals, they cannot require the public as a body, and they cannot require corporations to make investigation and law enforcement easy for them in a liberal society.

A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore.

As for being a voice in politics, I feel whether you are famous or not, busy or not, it's incumbent upon every citizen to participate in this government in any way we can.

Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.

It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.

A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.

It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably.

I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.

Almost half of the Turkish population believes it is not legitimate to criticize the government. Interestingly, this correlates with the number of supporters of Erdogan's government.

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks.

So, I bought a new CD and I was trying to get it open but couldn't with all the layers... I mean plastic and then tape, and the tape is like government tape. It says 'open here.' Is that sarcasm?

Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.

Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.

... the keynote of government is injustice.

The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.

The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.

There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

I mean, the Obama position has been, "We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it."

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.

Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

The nature of business and government has been to build a surplus and self-perpetuate, but the Internet fosters and rewards smaller, more fluid organizations.

Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.

In America, we have a government that is now run by white nationalists, by billionaires, by incredible misogynists.

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

Why communitarian socialism? Now not only do we have the pursuit of happiness for man, as a government, as a program or as our principles. But as well to live in harmony with Mother Earth.

The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution.

I don't trust this [american] government to be regulating corporations. I trust big business to be regulated [by itself] and to be a party to a decent solution.

Even more fundamental than housing to the global financial economy is the idea that the U.S. government is a safe asset.

The God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government. And he has sent other choice spirits to preserve it.

It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have.

Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.

When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

States are great engines moving slowly.

States, as great engines, move slowly.

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.