U S Government Quotes

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.

To have opposition ? We have it, and you can go and meet with them. We have some of them within the government, we have some of them outside the government. They are opposition. We have it.

When you talk about cooperation, it means cooperation between two legal governments, not cooperation between foreign government and any faction within Syria.

You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.

It's not about me, again, this fight is not my fight, it's not the fight of the government ; it's the fight of the country, of the Syrian people.

[American's government] thinking they are the judge of the world; they're not.

If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.

There's a difference between a mistake or even a crime that's been committed by an individual, and between a policy of crime that's been implemented or adopted by a government.

You can't say "the people of Aleppo" because the majority of the people of Aleppo are living in the area under the control of the government, so you cannot talk about the people of Aleppo.

America must listen. It must listen to the interests of others. But the US government has no interest in similarities, no matter how obvious.

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

There's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.

Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

So we [Americans] have a history a taking care of each other. Now, for some strange reason starting sort of in the 20's with Woodrow Wilson, the government started getting involved in everything.

In politics experiments means revolutions.

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.

Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.

Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

I'm not the government. Nor would I EVER want to be the government - I don't know how you feel about government, but I'm not really happy about them.

The thing that distinguishes America is that it is a republican form of government - anything that is not outlawed or specifically barred or regulated by the [Constitution] is LEGAL.

The reason we need to have a gold and silver based currency is to bring discipline to the financial system so the government can't go out and do all sorts of bad things.

Social security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. We are not going to cut social security! We are going to expand social security!

I don't believe government should take over, you know, the grocery store down the street or own the means of production.

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.

In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.

Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

Any private security is a joke in a country where youre up against your own government.

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

SARS is just made up by the Government of the United States!

I'm not pro-government at all, I'm pro-people.

I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at the time that sabotaged my mother's security in Pakistan.

The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.

The U.S. and Canada are two generous governments and we reach out and partner with anyone who believes in foreign aid.

The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.

We've been on a long break and I've just been kicking back, doing nothing. Like our government.

We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.