Government Quotes · Page 113

As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.

— John le Carre

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

— Barton Gellman

The American people just want the opportunity to create a better life for their families and keep the government out of their…

— John E. James

Government must start to look at mobile infrastructure as a critical national resource and not just a resource for tax dollars.

— Borje Ekholm

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

— Ronald Reagan

[Me attacked by media] is nothing more than an attempt to destroy our movement and for the Clintons to keep their corrupt…

— Donald Trump

This website is the dream of people who want to change the culture of state government.

— Steve Rauschenberger

I have proudly spent several periods in government, but I'm not a career politician. I come from a family of 'citizen soldiers.'

— Jim Webb

The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government,…

— Ilana Mercer

If [newsmen] violate their promises of confidentiality, they may never again be able to operate effectively, except to cover news which is…

— Jack C Landau

Were aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue…

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

The Third Way is simply a different route to the same destination. Ultimately, the choice is always between individual human liberty and…

— Ed Crane

USDA says pink slime, which is made of cow connective tissue and other scraps and then treated with ammonia to kill the…

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

Statistics on religious affiliation are notoriously slippery: the government isn't allowed to gather such data, and the membership claims of religious organizations…

— Stephen J. Dubner

Lobbyists in Washington are making six figure salaries selling our government out to the corporate interests and we just sit and smile…

— Hal Holbrook

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled…

— Michael Bloomberg

Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people and by the people, but…

— Mary Elizabeth Lease

America is an enormous country with enormous resources. The basic American spirit creates the Wright Brothers and Henry Ford and Bill Gates…

— Newt Gingrich

Islam is a revolutionary faith that comes to destroy any government made by man. Islam doesn't look for a nation to be…

— Abul A'la Maududi

FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is…

— Ambrose Bierce

In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Food security is not in the supermarket. It's not in the government. It's not at the emergency services division. True food security…

— Joel Salatin

That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another. God said, 'Thou shalt not kill'; at…

— Anonymous

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I like shooting movies in Thailand very much because the government is so cooperative there. The police help you to close the…

— Alan Mak

Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

— Ronald Reagan

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against…

— Thomas Jefferson

One thing is inevitable: if government continues to fall down the people will rise up.

— Anonymous

You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.

— Lemn Sissay

We don't want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we're going to…

— John Hickenlooper

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

— Scott Walker

When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.

— Glenn Reynolds

If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition…

— Milton Friedman

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

— Bill Gates

I would like to state that my personal opinions are that the people of every country should decide by themselves what kind…

— Julius Rosenberg

The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

— Will Rogers

The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land.

— Andrew Napolitano

Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake…

— Leonard Read

Over the years, the Government has made several pledges to put accessibility at the forefront of the travel agenda - but nothing…

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries.

— Matthew Lesko