Government Quotes · Page 20

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.

— Thomas Jefferson

Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.

— Stefan Molyneux

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

— Carlos Fuentes

“If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government.”

— Lenny Bruce

“The NSA is the only branch of the government that actually listens to people.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“The choice is yours: trust the government or trust Mother Nature.”

— John Cannell, MD

The old line of thought used to be that local government is the bush leagues.

— Pete Buttigieg

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

— Anonymous

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

— John Stossel

We have bloated, out-of-control, and unresponsive government agencies that need to be reined in and focused by Congress to deliver results.

— Elizabeth Emken

“In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we don't life or approve of.”

— Stephen King

Ask me my three main priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education, and education.

— Tony Blair

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

— James Bovard

I stand for all those who feel that the government no longer understands the individual and no longer respects individual rights.

— Harvey Milk

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

— Benjamin Disraeli

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and…

— Alan Keyes

I believe that he [Jesus] is Lord of the government, and the church, and business and education, and, hopefully, one day, Lord…

— Pat Robertson

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is…

— Michael Anti

If you believe women are constituted differently to men then remove taxation from them. But if you're a democrat and you believe…

— James Munro

Anyone who believes in good government and our Constitution should support coming together as a country to set some modern-day standards for…

— Jessica Tarlov

The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal…

— Joe Lieberman

Our forms of government - though both cast in the democratic pattern - are greatly different. Indeed, sometimes it appears that many…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once…

— Michele Bachmann

Senator McCain believes there ought to be a limit to how much the government can take from anybody, and he believes that…

— Karl Rove

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living,…

— Thomas Paine

Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work…

— Fulton J. Sheen

This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

For Social Security to be financially sound, the federal government should have $100 trillion - a sum of money six-and-a-half times the…

— John C. Goodman

We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an oligopoly of content controllers: new choke points.…

— Dan Gillmor

When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor,…

— June Jordan

The forefathers of the United States were children of religious bigotry and persecution, and, as a result, fled Britain to create a…

— Mike Medavoy

We have introduced equity into our life, including a uniform educational system. We have also introduced a Bill of Rights, which is…

— Nelson Mandela

It's not up to the government to regulate everybody's life and lifestyle.

— Bruce Bickford

I have flatly refused to be conned by Jyoti Basu and his corrupt government.

— Mamata Banerjee

Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.

— Mitt Romney

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

— Edward Abbey

I don't bow down to the federal government.

— Joe Arpaio

I would never run for any office or government position. I'm not into it.

— Chance The Rapper

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

— Samuel Johnson

No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.

— Thomas Jefferson