Government Quotes · Page 156

Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.

— L. Neil Smith

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

— Bernard Berenson

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

— Max Hastings

My father has been targeted for persecution by the Turkish government and its leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, because of his association…

— Enes Kanter

“The impeachment of President Trump was an excellent example of how seedy a government can be.”

— Steven Magee

We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate.

— Deval Patrick

“Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.”

— Tom Robbins

If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?

— Toshiko Kishida

Some parents struggle to put food on the table. And plenty of women aren't getting the pay they deserve. While I don't…

— Chrissy Teigen

With some reservation, it can be said that certain democratic elements are present in Georgia as well; but it is very clear…

— Garry Kasparov

State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for…

— Charles Bass

Workers in government, the arts, and industry report that the sheer volume of email they receive is overwhelming, taking a huge bite…

— Daniel Levitin

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government…

— Mitt Romney

What has happened to the dreams of the United Nations' founders? What has happened to the spirit which created the United Nations?…

— Ronald Reagan

[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them,…

— Noam Chomsky

Very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person…

— Dan Rather

Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through…

— Elgin Groseclose

No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political…

— Lysander Spooner

Called to the throne of my fathers, I have taken over the government, looking to the King of all kings, and have…

— Wilhelm II

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by…

— Thomas Jefferson

To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them…

— Jerome Frank

It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds…

— Frank Zappa

Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms…

— Amartya Sen

Americans whisper the word Alzheimer's because their government whispers the word Alzheimer's. And although a whisper is better than the silence that…

— Seth Rogen

The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

— Amartya Sen

When you're in government, you have a big impact in Washington, but Washington may not be doing very much.

— Joseph Stiglitz

I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were…

— Richard Holbrooke

“Authority is a responsible form of power; it should be given to responsible man.”

— Amit Kalantri

My constituents work hard, pay taxes and expect the government to put them, not illegal immigrants, first.

— Nicole Malliotakis

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil…

— Richard Branson

We will get an absolute majority, I don't need anybody's help, the BSP will form the government on its own.

— Mayawati

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.

— William Jennings Bryan

Government is nothing but the regulated injustice that every rascal has in his heart.

— Mariano Azuela

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

— Plato

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

— Guy De Maupassant

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

— William McKinley

Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.

— Harry S. Truman

Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government.

— Grover Norquist

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to…

— Milton Friedman

“If we were all responsible for the misdeeds of the governments that represent us, thought Isabel, then the moral burden would be…

— Alexander McCall Smith