Government Quotes · Page 219

Scientists have argued that research is good for health, wealth, and society, and the government has trusted them on that.

— Mark Walport

We're on our way to Greece, in the hands of a confused, foolish government. It's got to stop. It's got to stop.

— Steve Wynn

If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass…

— Dr. John

The real Social Security crisis is that the government does not have the money to redeem its IOUs.

— Paul Craig Roberts

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.

— Jay-Z

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

— Evgeny Morozov

The anti-big-government movement is pure. Its participants represent something close to what used to be considered normative in this country.

— Andrew Breitbart

There are plenty of issues President Trump and I don't agree on. I don't support shutting down our government over a border…

— Tony Evers

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is…

— Bernard Baruch

I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're…

— Jennifer Weiner

Hillary Clinton talks tough against Russia. But our nuclear program has fallen way behind, and they've gone wild with their nuclear program.…

— Donald Trump

“Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials…

— Bill Bryson

Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic…

— Geoff Mulgan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those…

— Alan Greenspan

If this is a war, my side has the nuclear bomb. We have K Street. We have Wall Street. Debbie doesn't have…

— Warren Buffett

I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the…

— Sting

I hold that this must be said, for treaties only make sense when concluded by honor-loving peoples and honor-conscious governments. Germany wishes…

— Adolf Hitler

Well, nobody's being deported - nobody - practically. And so what the people down there getting is the American government is telling…

— Mark Krikorian

70 to 80 percent of country economy is controlled by the Bolivian state, and the other percentage by the private sector. We…

— Evo Morales

He had a vision for changing our Medicare system, for bringing more people into the reality that our government should be a…

— Andrew Card

Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened…

— Gloria Steinem

“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people…

— Thomas Jefferson

In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important…

— Thomas Jefferson

I'd like to think that we've certainly strengthened the position of some of our government businesses.

— Peter Gutwein

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

— Ludwig von Mises

Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.

— Bob Etheridge

“I was surprised at the great lengths that the government goes to in order to deny eligible disability claims.”

— Steven Magee

I'm grateful to the state and central government for all their support for my academy.

— Mary Kom

If you're a minority party that doesn't control any branch of government, you're more likely to be ignored.

— Jennifer Palmieri

When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

— Barry Eisler

The government cannot enforce its mountain of laws and regulations without voluntary compliance.

— Charles Murray

In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it.

— Melvyn Bragg

Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of…

— Joseph Salerno

The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.

— Harold Ford, Jr

Frankly, I want to be in government with Caroline Lucas, not against her - and certainly not in permanent opposition.

— Clive Lewis

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”

— Mark Twain

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

— James Monroe

The government should stop meddling in the business of the farmers, who would actually still be living ina desert if not for…

— Jon Stewart