Government Quotes · Page 211

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no…

— Anonymous

The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.

— George Allen

We are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies, receive advice and criticism.

— Yemi Osinbajo

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

— William Weld

The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be…

— Will Rogers

Bottom line: government shouldn't be a bottleneck for entrepreneurs looking to design a better mousetrap.

— Ajit Pai

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

My husband is very fortunate to be part of the government. It is a great honor and privilege, and in no way…

— Louise Linton

A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on…

— Doug LaMalfa

The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but…

— Edmund Burke

The south really wants Abyei; they have a core constituency who reside in the area who believe that Abyei belongs to the…

— Rebecca Hamilton

When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the…

— Ronald Reagan

The admitted right of a government to prevent the influx of elements hostile to its internal peace and security may not be…

— Grover Cleveland

The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into…

— Amity Shlaes

The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change of ministers amounts to nothing. One goes out, another comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagances are pursued.…

— Thomas Paine

One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals…

— Wagner Moura

Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government…

— Thomas Jefferson

When the nuclear weapons were sent to the racist South African government, where a few million white people subjugated more than 13…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

I think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the…

— Murray Rothbard

This is crossing the Rubicon, after which there will be no more sovereign states in Europe with fully-fledged governments and parliaments which…

— Vaclav Klaus

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

— Ferdinand Marcos

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that…

— Howard Zinn

I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.

— Russell B. Long

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

— Luke Scott

“We live in a society that is governed by corrupt corporate controlled scumbags.”

— Steven Magee

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

— George Pataki

The aim of my government is to set up an industrial park at Dhamra. It will bring more investments to the state.

— Naveen Patnaik

Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

“Corporate governments have a long and established history of not prosecuting government officials that have been involved in blatant frauds.”

— Steven Magee

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

— Noam Chomsky

“Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Government policies ought to encourage families to stay together and work hard to improve their lives, not punish them.

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

Learning more about America's history and the way our government functions is exciting - and it is necessary.

— Michael Waltz

All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.

— Rupert Murdoch

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its…

— Frank Herbert