Government Quotes

We depend on the Supreme Court to uphold the integrity of our government.

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.

The ONLY thing that seems to band all nations together, is that their governments are universally bad.

We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.

We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.

Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.

The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.

The first twelve years are the hardest.

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours.

The most knowledgeable person is not necessarily the person who runs the government, nor the church, nor the business.

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.

I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.

We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through a process of regular elections.

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.

So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

A lot of people in government don't really read books at all.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.

The [Maicolm] Turnbull government's position on this is perfectly clear. We believe that there should be a plebiscite so that all Australians can have their say, and that is what Australians want.

The political bug first bit me was Malcolm Fraser's resignation from the Gorton Government.

For me the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that’s what separates us from other countries.

There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.

If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea.

Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.

There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake are not pay packages for a few but jobs and prosperity for the many.

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond those of any individual government.

Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any attempt by the government to turn that tragedy into justification for sweeping action.

You deserve better from your entire government, all of us.

I swore under oath with the government not to give the whereabouts of my location.

We have set out to promote the work of community and faith-based charities. Government cannot be replaced by charities, but it can welcome them as partners instead of resenting them as rivals.

Our new faith-based laws have removed government as a roadblock to people of faith who hear the call.

I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

Compassionate conservatism [is] most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.

“Governments accountable to the voters focus on building roads and schools—not weapons of mass destruction.”

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.