Government Quotes · Page 177

I'd love to believe in my government so I could trust law enforcement people again. I don't have that belief any more.

— David Thibodeau

In government, things do not move too quick. That is why I am trying to introduce a new culture: so that things…

— Jacob Zuma

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

— J. William Fulbright

I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?

— Paul Keating

I don't know any nation on Earth that succeeded in creating a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a…

— Mitt Romney

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants…

— Samantha Power

“Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.”

— Stefan Molyneux

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.

— Sydney Schanberg

But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality…

— Aristotle

Whether people are in America or in Africa, people want to work. They want to have purpose. They want to provide for…

— Scarlett Johansson

Thus, those who say they would have right without its correlate, wrong; or good government without its correlate, misrule, do not apprehend…

— Zhuangzi

'Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less…

— George Washington

The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while people should patriotically and cheerfully support their…

— Grover Cleveland

[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . .…

— Samuel Adams

We have seen that the tendency of republican governments is to an aggrandizement of the legislative at the expense of the other…

— James Madison

[T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the…

— Zell Miller

Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first…

— George Will

In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best,…

— Abraham Lincoln

Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right…

— Aristotle

The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay…

— Bruce Bartlett

I think that the spirit of America is still very much one of where people want to work hard and the majority…

— Robin Leach

Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not affairs…

— Gore Vidal

[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes…

— John Adams

If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire.…

— John Adams

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government…

— Noah Webster

“Let’s not forget—we already have a highly ranked officer secretly working for us at Patch Barracks, V Corps headquarters.”

— Karl Braungart

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

— Huey Long

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

— Thomas Sowell

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.

— John James Cowperthwaite

Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.

— Kenneth G. Wilson

Workers know first-hand how corporate capture of government is undermining their rights and freedoms as citizens.

— Sharan Burrow

Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.

— Tony Blair

The fact is that the American government and NATO have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan. Their next targets will be Syria and Iran.

— Mairead Corrigan

On form of government, there should be checks and balances, and PM should be responsible to Parliament.

— Sushil Koirala

As president, I'm focusing on economy, energy, national security, and the limited set of things the federal government is actually supposed to…

— Doug Burgum

When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.

— David Bonderman

In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.

— Ruhollah Khomeini

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the…

— Thomas Jefferson

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

— Winston Churchill