Government Quotes · Page 209

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

— Al Sharpton

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

— Ronald Reagan

States know better than the federal government how to allocate and manage resources to address the needs of their people.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

— Emma Goldman

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

— Mitch McConnell

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

— Philip K. Howard

Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.

— Bruce Sterling

Any government in the world, when facing an armed rebellion, has a constitutional, legal, and moral obligation to resist these militants.

— Omar al-Bashir

The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on - after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on…

— Barry Goldwater

“Government, if it has any purpose at all (and many libertarians doubt it does), should be restricted to the protection of its…

— Brian Doherty

I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would…

— Teri Garr

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm…

— George Clooney

Of all the difficulties in a state, the temper of a true government most felicifies and perpetuates it; too sudden alterations distemper…

— Francis Quarles

The British government has urged its citizens to abstain from alcohol at least two days a week. Or to make it easier…

— Conan O'Brien

The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the…

— H. L. Mencken

These days, however, the main problem comes from the right - from conservatives who, unlike most economists, really do think that the…

— Paul Krugman

The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did…

— Clarence Thomas

Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be…

— William Graham Sumner

It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised…

— Milton Friedman

Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the…

— Walter Lippmann

I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

I should say that Canada is one of the major criminals, not just the tar sands and so on, but even mining…

— Noam Chomsky

I'm sure the government of Qatar is not coming in to grow food for the people of Kenya; it's coming to grow…

— Wangari Maathai

You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that…

— Zechariah Chafee

Indeed, it is quite sad to see the United States becoming the main exporter of arms. It is quite sad to look…

— Óscar Arias

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of…

— Frederic Bastiat

Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government.

— Sam Harris

I'm a parent, and I regulate what my kids listen to. I don't need the government to be the parent. If I'm…

— Howard Stern

A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.

— Lisa Murkowski

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

— Woodrow Wilson

What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

— Vladimir Lenin

“A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.”

— Thomas Paine

People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in…

— Eric Cantor

I think when you've been exposed to the Creator of the universe, then the federal government doesn't seem very powerful.

— Steve Largent

I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible.

— Maurice Strong

It's government's role to inform us of risks and let us use personal responsibility to evaluate that risk ourselves.

— Lauren Boebert

It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in Government.

— Michael Gove

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

— Charley Reese

A government subsidized economic recovery, is not an economic recovery - it's an entitlement state.

— Tommy Tuberville