Government Quotes · Page 183

Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

— Abraham Lincoln

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

— Mike Huckabee

The president and his right-wing Supreme Court think it is 'okay' to have the government take your house if they feel like…

— Howard Dean

What you want is a government, particularly if you're coming in fresh as a new government, you want stability.

— Humza Yousaf

What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.

— Ed Crane

Liberals measure compassion by counting the number of people receiving government help.

— Rush Limbaugh

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against…

— Alexander Hamilton

When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash…

— Fabrizio Moreira

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth…

— Dixie Lee Ray

At lowest level people are corrupt without any way out; at middle level people are corrupt because of temptation and pressure from…

— K S Venkataraman

I was never interested in the two-party system per se. I was interested in how authority was abused by government, and how…

— Jules Feiffer

No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from…

— John Locke

Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot? Why, because being a God-fearing, self-reliant, freedom-loving American is a choice. Or we could be…

— Matt Shea

“You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's…

— Stefan Molyneux

The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these…

— Charley Reese

I do not know whether the Government will be able to get ready to conduct this transaction together with the management of…

— Vladimir Putin

The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable…

— William Jennings Bryan

We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy…

— John Keegan

I write about how in Midland, the mayor instituted water conservation measures like restrictions on car washing. He made a point though…

— Gail Collins

I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps. My mom then got Pell Grants,…

— Adam McKay

The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor…

— William Jennings Bryan

Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes…

— Dalai Lama

I believe we can make progress on bringing true equality and fairness back to our government if we continue to work together…

— Tulsi Gabbard

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

— Najib Razak

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

— Julius Nyerere

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

— Edward Snowden

We know the only way to reimagine our government is to reimagine who is leading it.

— Carly Fiorina

I was by Ariel Sharon's side on the day it was decided to form Kadima. It was founded in aim to create…

— Tzipi Livni

“We the People have the power that becomes the power but the power abuses its power becoming tyrannical to its source of…

— Jose R. Coronado

Government should eschew suasion and directives to banks on interest rates that run counter to monetary policy actions.

— Urjit Patel

We have a strong government and are a nuclear state. Even if our government was completely destroyed, our nuclear missiles would be…

— Ramzan Kadyrov

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

— Michael Bloomberg

In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in…

— Helen Clark

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burthens.

— Abraham Lincoln

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

— Beverley Baxter

the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.

— Thomas Jefferson

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

— Mitch Daniels

I think we live in a quite an immoral society with quite an amoral government and they're going to have to grow…

— Frankie Boyle