Government Quotes · Page 152

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the…

— Grover Norquist

We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels…

— Paul Krugman

Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

The Veterans Health Administration is a perfect case study of how government should stay out of patient care altogether.

— Mercedes Schlapp

England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and…

— Caryl Churchill

That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.

— Will Rogers

I came into politics because of my opposition to what a Tory Government was doing to the community I grew up in.

— Nicola Sturgeon

When the government says we're going to build something on behalf of the community, we do it.

— Gladys Berejiklian

What's really important about WikiLeaks is that the Russian government has engaged in espionage against Americans. They have hacked American websites, American…

— Hillary Clinton

America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for…

— George W. Bush

And may I not be allowed to ... read in the character of the American people, in their devotion to true liberty…

— James Madison

no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect…

— Thomas Jefferson

This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes…

— Joseph Stalin

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to…

— Ronald Reagan

In the United States there are three parts of our government - the judiciary, the legislative and the executive - and the…

— Philip M. Breedlove

Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural…

— Thomas Sowell

I often use the iPhone as an example of how governments shape markets, because what makes the iPhone ‘smart’ and not stupid…

— Mariana Mazzucato

“Mankind were intended to be happy... that government being only the means of securing freedom and happiness to the people, whenever it…

— James Iredell

It is federal, because it is the government of States united in a political union, in contradistinction to a government of individuals,…

— John C. Calhoun

There is a land problem in Zimbabwe, there is a need land for redistribution but it must be handled different, without violence,…

— Thabo Mbeki

It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to…

— Samuel West

Even if they were willing to let you remove your Pride from the council's collective influence—and they won't be—there's a reason the…

— Rachel Vincent

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of…

— Henry George

My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible…

— Henry A. Kissinger

When we find a ship, we turn it over to the state or federal government. It's purely historical. I've never made a…

— Clive Cussler

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

— Edward Abbey

When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are…

— Wole Soyinka

A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.

— Donald O. Hebb

We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.

— Ronald Reagan

Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.

— Murray Rothbard

What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

— Ludwig von Mises

While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business,

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue.

— Martin O'Malley

Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America.

— Barack Obama

Beyond the barricades we long to see a Hong Kong free from tyranny and a puppet government.

— Joshua Wong

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

— Jay Weatherill

My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers.

— Victor Hugo

While introducing AI into the government will save money through optimizing processes, it should also be deployed to eliminate waste, fraud, and…

— Will Hurd

For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare.

— Douglas Massey

I consider all proposals for government action with an open mind before voting no.

— Ronald Reagan