Government Quotes · Page 199

It is the job of government to prevent a tragedy of the commons. That includes the commons of shared values and norms…

— Paul Romer

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of…

— Chris Christie

Your television has changed, your phone has changed. Why don't these other things you need, that the government tells you you must…

— Tony Fadell

Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

— E. L. Doctorow

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

— Don Marquis

We must remember that ours was intended to be a citizen government, and we must work together to restore our country and…

— Carly Fiorina

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

— Mark Twain

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

— Victor Hugo

I think that now is the moment for us to rededicate ourselves to learning the truth about what happened on February 21st…

— Manning Marable

Same-sex couples should have the right to civil marriage. Our time on this earth is limited, I know that better than most.…

— Mark Kirk

our great common challenge ... is to free people from religion, get it out of our laws, our schools, our health systems,…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I have a problem with superheroes in general because, politically, superheroes are cops. Superheroes work with the government to uphold the law.…

— Boots Riley

Malaysians, during the colonial period, were not given the top positions: we were always subordinate. Fortunately for us, the people who took…

— Mahathir Mohamad

I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state…

— Peter Diamandis

I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him…

— D. H. Lawrence

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of…

— Jim Gibbons

After Jessica Mitford published 'The American Way of Death' in 1963, to expose the abuses in the funeral industry, a groundswell of…

— Perianne Boring

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on…

— Brian Eno

“New rules—we needed new rules. No one opens the main doors but me. No one leaves the property without me. No one…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think…

— Manning Marable

The government taxes you when you bring home a paycheck. It taxes you when you make a phone call. It taxes you…

— J. C. Watts

Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public…

— James Madison

This is not to say that the government should confiscate from the "haves" and bestow upon the "have-nots", beyond the requirements of…

— Ronald Reagan

Americans' liberty is perishing beneath the constant growth of government power. Federal, state and local government's are confiscating citizens' property, trampling their…

— James Bovard

I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.

— Hugo Chavez

“In bad countries the government takes care of everyone. In the best ones that's not necessary!‏”

— Celso Cukierkorn

To understand the motivations behind Chinese government policy decisions, look no further than their impact on State-Owned Enterprises.

— Anthony Scaramucci

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

— Milton Friedman

The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.

— R.J. Rushdoony

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

— Philip Schaff

The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

— James Madison

I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The…

— Bob Marley

To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be…

— George Washington

I'm liberal about everything that is issue-based as far as ideology, but I'm also of the opinion of a very small government.

— David Draiman

The truth is, sometimes the best way for the government to help those in need is to stop itself from 'helping' them…

— Kat Timpf

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

— Richard M. Nixon

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

— John F. Kennedy

You can provide better services for less if you get the federal government out of the way.

— Mick Mulvaney

A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.

— Ian Harris

“I believe the term is ‘eminent domain.’ Ah, yes. That means ‘theft by the government,”

— Terry Pratchett