Government Quotes · Page 131

Your honor, throughout this process I've asked the government and the court to hold me and only me accountable for my actions.

— Jesse Jackson, Jr

Our system of government in Israel has permitted minority groups and sectarian parties to force their way on the majority.

— Benny Gantz

I've still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.

— Bill Vaughan

Demonetisation was not a decision of UP government. It is the central government's decision.

— Amit Shah

Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.

— Frederic Bastiat

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient…

— Charley Reese

“the best argument against a democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

— Winston Churchill

A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless…

— Woodrow T Wilson

The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some…

— Lysander Spooner

I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization,…

— Charles Grodin

Musharraf's government has a civilian face - there are still elections and assemblies - and he has come to believe his own…

— Asma Jahangir

Federal agencies that own bridges have some of the worst records for on-time inspections. Nearly 3,000 bridges owned by U.S. government agencies…

— Bill Dedman

It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the…

— Adam Cohen

I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what's being proposed…

— John McCain

I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about…

— Peter T. King

“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could…

— Murray N. Rothbard

I think corporations should give more attention to this suffering and should wait to invest until there is a responsible government in…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day…

— W. Cleon Skousen

I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived…

— Joe Quirk

Social change cannot come above the intellect, it comes about by people suffering. And the more people are related to that, the…

— Jacque Fresco

The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no…

— Walter Lippmann

I mean you can go wherever you want with it really. No matter what story you're telling you're always representing some reality.…

— Colin Farrell

Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government,…

— Frank Gaffney

Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly…

— Anonymous

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

— Daniel Webster

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.

— Edward Snowden

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark..

— Jack Anderson

Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell…

— Ludwig von Mises

Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing…

— Michael Gove

Government doesn't have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.

— Marco Rubio

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to…

— Noreena Hertz

America's remaining wild horses are under aggressive attack and rapidly disappearing from government-managed, citizen-owned wilderness spaces.

— Zoe Helene

“The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.

— Jack Kemp

“A government that kills its own citizens is like a parent that kills their own kids aka filicide or like a mother…

— Youns Hussein

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

— Edmund Burke

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

— Thomas Jefferson

Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth.

— Joe Craft

It's not about me, again, this fight is not my fight, it's not the fight of the government ; it's the fight…

— Bashar al-Assad

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

— Thomas Paine