Us Government Quotes

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

A government of our own is our natural right

"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."

As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.

The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.

Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.

Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.

The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.

I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive.

I think you should live your moral values, but the last thing, the very last thing, the government should do is have laws that would punish women who make reproductive choices.

Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy.

I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.

More than anyone else, Adolf Hitler completely understood the union between government propaganda and between - and advertising, that they were in some ways the same thing.

The great and good ends proposed by the Illuminati, as the ultimate objects of their union, are the overthrow of religion, government, and human society civil and domestic.

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S.

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant and no longer the master.

More freedom means more jobs... less government and less taxes.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.

I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.

The U.N. is asking Italy to oversee this effort. And if a government is formed, you're likely to see up to 5,000 Italian troops maybe go in to provide security and also train a Libyan army.

The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

We must have government that spends less and does less.

A financial panic is a very bad thing, but a government panic can do far greater damage in a far shorter time.

If you want to change the world right now, it’s not so much a secret how you do it. You put the secrets of a criminal government on the Internet.

You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.

Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

Today, we have got more excuses from the government.

And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.

And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.

We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.

There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.

We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.

Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.

A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.

There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.

A government that says what it means, and means what it says.

Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.

There's a huge wave of anti-establishment feeling. There's an enormous amount of anger. And it's collapsing governments and political movements across the world right now.

The challenge we've got is that the Government does not have a working majority. They don't.

With a close parliament, if the Government wants to get a good outcome for the nation, they can't play a game of lying to the public about what's in their own legislation. They can't do that.