Government Quotes · Page 163

I don't see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they're very well-to-do.

— Brigitte Bardot

The NYPD is just a branch of corruption connected to a giant, corrupt tree called the United States government.

— Prodigy

The SCMP, in short, reveals the renewed spirit of Hong Kong driven by my government - connect and excel - and in…

— Carrie Lam

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.

— Doug Larson

The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.

— Tim Pawlenty

The government is not doing anything to help the country to heal. The government is just making cosmetic changes.

— Zainab al-Khawaja

Our country is slowly but surely moving - and I've seen it over and over again in many instances in government -…

— Elijah Cummings

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have been at…

— Jemima Khan

I think that the government has an obligation to monitor communications that could reveal a plot to murder millions of Americans. Monitoring…

— Jeff Gannon

When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the…

— Ronald Reagan

Justice is the object of government, and those who support the government, must be agreed as to the justice to be executed…

— Lysander Spooner

In the 2012 campaign, the president successfully transformed the most intense conservative positions into liabilities on immigration and the role of government.

— John Dickerson

“I need to say this – you shouldn't trust any government, actually including this one. You should not trust government – full…

— Nick Clegg

The case decided on Thursday, though, seemed promising to takings fans because it wasn't about compensation. It was about the requirement that…

— Michael Kinsley

It is difficult to conduct flood mitigation at the federal level because of the bureaucracy and inconsistent funding. Texans are better able…

— George P. Bush

Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed…

— Benjamin Franklin

Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically…

— Tom Robbins

People think that the government honors and respects us, and that they're actually going to come in and help people in need,…

— Mr. Lif

It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge…

— Thomas A. Edison

Every one says: 'Listen, I'd love to reinvest. I'd love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill…

— Kristi Noem

After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington…

— Michele Bachmann

“When it comes down to it, government is simply an abandonment of responsibility on the assumption that there are people, other than…

— Alan W. Watts

Anytime you're dealing with moral issues, in a government position, you're dealing with some sticky stuff because everybody's morality is different. So…

— LeCrae

Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs.

— Robert Quillen

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

— Johann Lamont

When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on [gay] marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

— Rand Paul

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

— George Will

It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt.

— Wole Soyinka

Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.

— Anonymous

We need to show why the government should be funding science and how that funding delivers.

— Mark Walport

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull…

— Sally Phillips

The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.

— Charles Murray

No government in any country can run on static definitions of economic thinking.

— Amit Shah

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

— Karl Popper

The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.

— Ludwig von Mises

There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of…

— Alexander Hamilton

It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that…

— J. B. Pritzker

Aligning private development with community needs for equity and resiliency is one of the most powerful roles of city government.

— Michelle Wu

While many governments and well-meaning individuals have redefined marriage, the Lord has not.

— Neil L. Andersen