Government Quotes · Page 180

The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

I think whenever something is - whenever there's something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form…

— Elon Musk

Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love…

— Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.

— Aaron Swartz

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

— Paul Ryan

Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall.

— Timothy D. Snyder

My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.

— Barack Obama

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of…

— George Washington

A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector…

— Calvin Coolidge

I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

“No matter how corrupt or greedy our government is, our corporations, our media, our religious and charitable institutions may come, the music…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

I think the most important thing is [to] restore a sense of idealism and end the cynicism in state government. Bring to…

— Rod Blagojevich

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it,…

— Ai Weiwei

It's so hard to predict the political environment. I think that business can't sit on the sidelines and just watch. I think…

— Dan Schulman

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no…

— Anonymous

American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get…

— Ron Paul

You just overwhelm the system with so many dependents and so many middle class benefits having to be paid that the money…

— Rush Limbaugh

Reagan said that government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem. And he was going to dismantle that…

— Brian Balogh

Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the…

— Aristotle

If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid…

— Margaret Thatcher

Government has laid its hand on health, housing, farming, industry, commerce, education, and to an ever-increasing degree interferes with the people's right…

— Ronald Reagan

Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial,…

— Sufjan Stevens

As I came through medical school, it was very exciting because physicians were reaching out to each other, between the U.S. and…

— Jill Stein

We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in…

— Hamid Karzai

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

— Lincoln Steffens

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on…

— Juan Cole

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

— Mark McKinnon

If you want to change the world right now, it’s not so much a secret how you do it. You put the…

— Tom Morello

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and…

— Aristotle

Government can't do everything, but there is a role for government and smart policy, especially in equalizing opportunities for folks.

— Michael Tubbs

“A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away”

— Barry Goldwater

Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.

— David Boaz

After forming government in 2019, the BJP will undertake a nationwide identification of illegal infiltrators living in the country.

— Amit Shah

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.

— John Adams

Environment conservation without stagnating development is the objective of our government.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and…

— Dionysius of Halicarnassus

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you…

— Grover Norquist

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

— Rand Paul

“We live in a time when to reject the idea of an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful government is to be viewed by that…

— Dave Champion