Government Quotes · Page 126

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

— Joseph Farah

Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

— Milton Friedman

I want to make it very clear from day one that we are a government for everyone.

— Gladys Berejiklian

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in…

— John Adams

Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends.

— Elizabeth Warren

Government is not just about maintaining the status quo. It's about helping people's lives to work.

— Chirlane McCray

Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.

— John Pugsley

That, in essence is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free…

— Benjamin Franklin

One of the best programs that the federal government sponsors is the Small Business Innovation Research program, in which more than 2.5…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion…

— Karen Mills

The state security bodies should not be seen as an institution that works against society and the state; one needs to understand…

— Vladimir Putin

If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage…

— Jamie Dimon

The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that…

— Roy Moore

A decision by the government to arm the rebels in Syria ought to be taken as carefully as one to commit British…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within…

— John F. Kennedy

Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any…

— Errico Malatesta

The Bible says we are to be salt and light. And salt and light means not just in the church and not…

— Katherine Harris

The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

The USA is a threat to world peace. Who are they to pretend that they are the policemen of the world, the…

— Nelson Mandela

“All governments, even these precious “democracies,” derive all their power by force. Do something the government doesn’t want, like, say, cross the…

— S. Evan Townsend

We went through substantial periods of being dependent on some type of government service, whether food stamps, WIC, Medicaid, children's health insurance.…

— Leana S. Wen

The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy…

— David Cameron

Who will show me any Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty of the American people to surrender everything valuable in life,…

— Daniel Webster

I am confident that Jeff Sessions will do his part to restore the delicate balance between the states and the federal government…

— Luther Strange

At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers'…

— Randal Cremer

Jacob Rees-Mogg gets his tummy tickled when the ERG threatens to vote against a government bill unless it is amended on policy.

— Anna Soubry

The government, of course, will print money to bail out the banks' uncovered casino bets, but not to bail out the elderly…

— Paul Craig Roberts

Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government

— John Prescott

Lots of people say politics is about individualism and egos. I happen to think government is best operated as a team.

— Matt Hancock

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

— Samuel Adams

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The government can reasonably rely on debt ratings when it forms programs to lend money to buyers of otherwise unattractive debt instruments.

— Seth Klarman

It is in all our interests that the government, when buying goods or services, pays the lowest price.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

— Mark Twain

Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The government of Iran claims that every two years there are elections. But none of them are free.

— Shirin Ebadi

“...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau