Government Quotes · Page 185

The ONLY thing that seems to band all nations together, is that their governments are universally bad.

— Frank Zappa

Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send…

— Timothy Murphy

I don’t believe in involving the government in enforcing or encouraging the lifestyle of gays and homosexuals.

— Bill McCollum

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

— Ben Jonson

Whatever the needs of the public are, the government responds to those needs by getting larger.

— Dave Barry

“I was truly shocked at what I found when I researched why I could not get my government disability payments.”

— Steven Magee

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

— Anonymous

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

— James Madison

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them…

— Ai Weiwei

The forces that rescued Americans on Sept. 11, 2012, were not the U.S. military. They were not the militias that overthrew Gadhafi.…

— Pete Hoekstra

In the 55-60 years of their rule, the successive Congress government have only looted the country and plunged it into poverty, casteism,…

— Yogi Adityanath

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are…

— Jimmy Carter

I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the…

— Paul Broun

It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a…

— Emma Thompson

I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was…

— Kamisese Mara

During the socialist period, the government became too big. That created a crowding-out effect in the private economy, and it gave everybody…

— Antonis Samaras

A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true…

— Thomas Jefferson

Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in…

— Thomas Sowell

“…it is the public sector I find more interesting, because governments and other non-market institutions have long suffered from the innovation malaise…

— Steven Johnson

I have made you - along with Fox News has made you - think Obama is something that he isn't. And it's…

— Rush Limbaugh

Although my own view is that bin Laden does not want to stage an attack that looks like 9/11 in Europe simply…

— Michael Scheuer

And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose…

— Abraham Lincoln

Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to…

— Richard Ebeling

The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and…

— Bertie Ahern

When I'll... form a government, I don't intend to cooperate with those who go against the State of Israel.

— Benny Gantz

So bitcoin gives us an opportunity to reclaim the power of the people to say yes or no to what the government…

— Stefan Molyneux

I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

— Joseph Heller

The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.

— Bruce Rauner

Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of…

— Bob Schieffer

Government is at its best when you've got servant leaders that are acting for the good of the public.

— Doug Burgum

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

— Michael Hastings

Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists - and every government that supports them.

— George W. Bush

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

— Frantz Fanon

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

— Ralph Hall

We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.

— Abdolkarim Soroush

Trust in our economic system and the genius and hard work of our citizens beyond the mandate and control of government.

— Rick Tumlinson

There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and…

— Allen West

Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I mean, I've spent time in local - in state government. I was a representative. I spent time in city government.

— Marty Walsh