Government Quotes · Page 167

The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.

— John Kasich

I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security…

— Phil Crane

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'

— Ernie Fletcher

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

— Henry David Thoreau

The values imposed on you, such as statism, motherland, religion, traditions etc - are the instruments to manipulate you. Don't idolize the…

— Ilkin Santak

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

— Richard M. Nixon

It's not, 'We have a city to bid, now let's go check in with the federal government'.

— Peter Ueberroth

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power…

— Duong Van Minh

The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any…

— Will Rogers

Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has…

— Thomas Jefferson

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables…

— Mark Twain

I think the basis - the foundation - has already been laid for a society where people will work together and enjoy…

— Huey Newton

[The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of…

— Antonin Scalia

NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process…

— Bob Inglis

I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That's a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought…

— Whitfield Diffie

The truth is that neither then nor at any former time, since I had attained my maturity in Age, Reading and reflection…

— John Adams

Conservatives came to office to reduce the size of government and enlarge the sphere of free and private initiative. But lately we…

— John McCain

You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that…

— Zechariah Chafee

I should say that Canada is one of the major criminals, not just the tar sands and so on, but even mining…

— Noam Chomsky

I'm sure the government of Qatar is not coming in to grow food for the people of Kenya; it's coming to grow…

— Wangari Maathai

I believe that in order for our democratic system to work as intended, the average person must have faith in their government.…

— Elissa Slotkin

The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did…

— Clarence Thomas

Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be…

— William Graham Sumner

"Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.

— J. William Fulbright

If you are insulted for your sarcasm, that means you hit the target you killed the person you mocked on.

— Ilkin Santak

Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.

— William Godwin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument…

— Aaron Sorkin

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

— William Howard Taft

“Government should protect people and regulate corporations, not protect corporations and regulate people.”

— Anthony Sloan

People of all races need to come together to control our government and run a giant comb through it so we can…

— Prodigy

Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup…

— Hugo Chavez

Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.

— Vladimir Putin

We must not look to government to solve our problems. Government is the problem.

— Ronald Reagan

Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come…

— Gavin Newsom

Candidates seeking the highest office in our government deserve the opportunity to be fully heard.

— Harris Faulkner

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as…

— Alistair Cooke

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

— Vince Cable

We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

— Tony Abbott