Government Quotes · Page 218

Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.

— Charles Frankel

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

— Bob Dole

In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President…

— Bella Abzug

“The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.”

— Gilles Deleuze

The most knowledgeable person is not necessarily the person who runs the government, nor the church, nor the business.

— Frederick Lenz

I would like there to be an entity, a person with some authority, to interact with government, with officials, to advocate on…

— Andrew Scheer

What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.

— Kapil Sibal

Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

— George Washington

Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only…

— Annie Lennox

If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in…

— Peter Drucker

A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for…

— John Jay Hooker

I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy…

— James Meredith

“It is a feature of government that the more important the problem, the further it tends to be removed from handling by…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally.…

— Stephen Harper

As the American people have discovered, soaring rhetoric is no substitute for effective leadership on the key issues facing our nation: jobs,…

— Kevin Brady

You know, my sense is that transparency is a good thing. It also has to be what - private information should be…

— Jill Stein

Thank you for your kind invitation. However, as a gay man, I must decline. I am deeply troubled by the current attitude…

— Wentworth Miller

If you don't plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him,…

— Kay Arthur

As I write in 2012 we certainly do not believe that it is over yet, and the worst may be yet to…

— Robert J. Shiller

Beneath a free government there is nothing but the intelligence of the people to keep the people's peace. Order must be preserved,…

— Edward Everett

The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals.…

— Ivan Illich

While Washington pays lip service to the challenges facing small businesses, it repeatedly chooses its own expansion over results. In effect, government…

— David Malpass

Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our…

— William Jennings Bryan

All New Mexicans need fair wages, high-quality health care, and a government that looks out for them - not just big corporations…

— Ben Ray Lujan

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

— Thomas Jefferson

The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.

— Jim Breithaupt

With rising Covid-19 cases and deaths in India, the government should have thought of the repercussions before opening liquor shops.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

The primary role of government is to provide for the safety and security of their populations.

— Pete Hoekstra

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

— John Steinbeck

Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home

— Winston Churchill

The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.

— Rebecca M. Blank

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan…

— Moshe Dayan

Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

— Noam Chomsky

There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

— Edward Snowden

A Midwestern municipal government isn't the first thing that leaps to mind when you think of innovation, but it ought to be.

— Pete Buttigieg

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

— John Wyndham

It is the Jammu and Kashmir government, which has to take an initiative of inviting actors and the film industry to the…

— Raza Murad