Government Quotes · Page 186

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

— Clinton Rossiter

It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.

— James Jesus Angleton

Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed.

— Cynthia Dill

When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.

— Karl Hess

The U.S. government places considerable trust in those given access to classified information, and we are committed to prosecuting those who abuse…

— Dana Boente

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

— Woodrow Wilson

If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.

— Mark Dayton

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Church of Christ is constituted in two orders, the clergy and the people, the one having the care of the Church…

— Thomas Becket

Christians, above all people, should desire that their elected representatives submit to the Constitution, because it is constitutional government that has done…

— Chuck Baldwin

The world does not run on the number of certificates one has, but on the skills our hands have. Let the youth…

— Narendra Modi

As one of the principal responsibilities of the government is to safeguard its citizens, it is entirely reasonable that it should look…

— Dominic Grieve

When the coercive power of government is used to equalize incomes, it guarantees less prosperity across the board and spreads the misery,…

— David Limbaugh

Our supporters just want a Labour government. They want a Labour government that does what Labour governments are expected to do. They…

— John McDonnell

There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in…

— Cass Sunstein

“When a government turns from following the will of its people to willing its people to follow — acting according to its…

— Ben Carson

Based on my experience as a prosecutor in Miami, illegal immigration is one of the most critical issues facing this country. As…

— Janet Reno

My view is that the cyber threat is bigger than any one government agency - or even the government itself. But the…

— Christopher A. Wray

The implications of the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a World Organization. . .Political unification in some sort of…

— Julian Huxley

Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that…

— Learned Hand

A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he…

— Thomas Paine

“Ferbin's father had had the same robustly pragmatic view of religion as he’d had of everything else. In his opinion, only the…

— Iain M. Banks

“Only the most ingeniously optimistic, the most wilfully blind to the facts of history and psychology, can believe that paper guarantees of…

— Aldous Huxley

[I] vow[ed] to fight against socialized medicine…On healthcare, I agree with the President that we need to get costs under control...I can…

— Glenn Thompson

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

— Joseph Conrad

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

— Maggie Gallagher

The only leader America should ever have is someone who understands that the people are the government.

— Eric Metaxas

We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process…

— Kim Campbell

Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society.

— Harry Browne

It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

No, a euro referendum will not be part of a government programme if we get the chance to form one,

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious…

— Franklin Pierce

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers,

— Oliver Stone

I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.

— Gary Johnson

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Our founders recognized that 'men were not angels' and that checks and balances in government were critical to avoid threats to the…

— Neal Katyal

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.

— John Adams

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

— Thomas Jefferson

I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?

— Pat Paulsen

The only things that are immortal in this world are government programs and cancer cells in petri dishes.

— Jim Babka