Us Government Quotes

Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.

I don't have too much time for fiction.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.

Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.

The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.

Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography. Other photographers did commercial work, or worked for the government.

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution.

No government in the Middle East is innocent. Wars make the stock market go up, so no one in America is innocent either, nor anyone anywhere where capitalism reigns.

Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected

Not from my point of view....[Clinton] want[s] to move toward mandated government medicine, socialized medicine.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we still think it's worthwhile.

All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.

The level of concern and anxiety among scientists - and I guess I'd say the science-friendly public - about the place of science in society in government, has gone beyond concern to anxiety.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Donald Trump represents and speaks for people who get nothing from government.

Our way of life, our government defines the way America is. I mean, it's not luck.

The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.

If you don't like going to the DMV, imagine if the only place you could go to resolve a health care problem is some government agency.

Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.

"Radicalized" is a new keyword for you to understand that allows our government to not say "terrorism."

Our government denies that terrorism is caused by Islamic doctrine. Now, that is true, and it is a declarative statement. It's not arguable.

If you believe in free will, why don't you have confidence in people to use it? Why do you want a government, or whoever, regulating them, if you believe in it?

The left don't get what they want without the government forcing people to do it is the bottom line.

The Republican Congress is like a groundhog afraid of its shadow when a government shutdown is talked about.

That's what the Ivy League is. And many of the people there are legacy. Their families went there; their families are in government. The kids go there.

Barack Obama is not only going to reside in Washington and be on call, essentially, with the Drive-By Media, he's setting up what essentially is going to be a shadow government.

Every time a Republican wins the White House, whenever Republicans win control of Congress, the Drive-Bys always claim that the message is voters want a balanced and divided government.

There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.

The government's the one thing that's not supposed to grow. The U.S. economy is supposed to grow. The two things can't really happen together.

This is a typical liberal trick, by the way: Stack the deck so the whole thing fails leaving only one option, the government to go in to save the day.

The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most affected.

I do not think a revival of business will be greatly postponed by [Samuel J.] Tilden's election. Business prosperity does not, inmy judgment, depend on government so much as men commonly think.

Japan needs to cooperate with China economically. This is understood better by the business community than the government.

If this government is like the last one, then Iraq will break apart.

You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.

The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it.

It would be useless to bomb Washington. If you destroy one building, they already have two other buildings completely staffed with people doing exactly the same thing.

At the U.N., any nation that fights back is censored as an "aggressor."

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order." - John V. Lindsay "No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.