Government Quotes · Page 166

We must not allow the federal government to set a precedence of pushing parents out from having a say in their children's…

— Mark Robinson

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

— Jim Hightower

For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

— Albert Einstein

If you aren't free to protect yourself - when government puts its thumb on that freedom - then you aren't free at…

— Wayne LaPierre

It is getting harder and harder to support the government in the style to which it has become accustomed.

— Anonymous

We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do…

— Gavin Newsom

Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.

— Stockwell Day

Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research…

— Nicholas Negroponte

And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two…

— John Breaux

I have chosen to cast my lot with independent media outlets because I believe that only through independent reporting where you are…

— Jeremy Scahill

What happens in Israel, it's not so divided between being a film actor, or a TV actor - usually, we just do…

— Meital Dohan

Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84…

— Paul Ryan

There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and…

— Bob Hawke

The unprecedented success of Keynesianism is due to the fact that it provides an apparent justification for the 'deficit spending' policies of…

— Ludwig von Mises

Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK…

— James Meade

It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There…

— Thomas Paine

It is not wise for us to permit a few people on the Federal Reserve Board to have life and death power…

— Walter E. Williams

In the story ["The Pyramid and the Ass"] there's this war against the so-called Buddhist Terrorists. As we find out, they're not…

— Alexander Weinstein

I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in…

— Frank Herbert

“It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on…

— William J. Brennan

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the…

— Lincoln Steffens

In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and…

— George Will

Country has to stop giving electricity for free. It is like giving people cocaine.

— Farooq Abdullah

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

— Benazir Bhutto

Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.

— Charles A. Beard

[Giving welfare to poor people] is the equivalent of the government sending [fat people] a jumbo bag of Bugles in the mail…

— Adam Carolla

Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure.

— Thomas Erskine

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones.

— Thomas Jefferson

I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.

— Brigham Young

When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.

— Michel Temer

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

— Abraham Lincoln

Bitcoin is not “unregulated”. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted.

— Andreas Antonopoulos

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers…

— Roger Mudd

We [Federal Government] have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.

— Henry Morgenthau, Jr

Businesses should be focused on business, and social responsibility should be government responsibility.

— Terry Gou

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

— Woodrow Wilson

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

— Ron Paul