Government Quotes · Page 247

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

— Robert Toombs

The Narendra Modi government has worked for the betterment of the agricultural sector as a whole and towards the goal of doubling…

— Anurag Thakur

We believe in a government that trusts people and doesn't limit where you finish because of where you started.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like…

— Zack Snyder

No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.

— Rupert Murdoch

A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

— Thomas Jefferson

...open-market democratic capitalism isn't the best system of government in the world, it just works the best.

— John Ringo

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.

— Woodrow Wilson

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles…

— Benjamin Rush

The policies and laws executed by the grand mufti in Libya, the long-term agenda in the short-lived Morsi government in Egypt, and…

— Pete Hoekstra

I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am designating a new Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers to cut through red tape and ensure that the…

— Barack Obama

What I have said is that I think the federal government and we as a society have come too far in trying…

— Ken Buck

The Founding Fathers envisioned a federal government that trusts its people with their money and freedom, outlining this limited, non-intrusive federal government…

— Milton Friedman

Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine…

— Otto Schily

During the years I lived here, the people of Alexandra ignored tribal and ethnic distinctions. Instead of being Xhosas, or Sothos, or…

— Nelson Mandela

My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states.…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

“..each ministry has an allocation of money to spend on projects agreed to by the government. Every Secretary of State is acutely…

— Jeffrey Archer

In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which…

— Mark Steyn

The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month,…

— Bill Dedman

There is a connection waiting to be made between the decline in democratic participation and the explosion in new ways of communicating.…

— Robin Cook

Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons…

— Shirley Hazzard

I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

It is not business, it is not government - it is the social sector that may yet save the society.

— Frances Hesselbein

I want to keep the government out of the business of giving incentives to have or not have kids, or incentives to…

— Charles Murray

“Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil. . . .”

— Howard Zinn

The government could take away all the drugs in the world and people would spin around on their lawns until they fell…

— Dennis Miller

Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.

— Herbert Hoover

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like…

— Thomas Carlyle

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.

— Henry A. Kissinger

It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the…

— Giles Fraser

The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.

— Leonard Read

That is the key strength of independent academia: we can speak up in spite of corporate or government interests.

— Zeynep Tufekci

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

— Ronald Reagan

I want people to understand the barriers to serious government in order that more people take action.

— Dominic Cummings

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

— Charley Reese

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

— William Penn

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

— Lawrence Summers

It's time for the government to scale back, not for people of faith to scale back!

— Mike Huckabee