Government Quotes · Page 250

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes,”

— Andrew Jackson

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

— Camille Desmoulins

It is a duty for any government to uphold the rule of law, and this sometimes requires the proportionate use of force.

— Frans Timmermans

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get…

— Adam Carolla

I am anxious that, in some areas, changes across Government departments are making things worse for our nation's mental health.

— Luciana Berger

Big Tech seems focused on acting as an extension of big government, quashing content from those who oppose their liberal ideology.

— Nicole Malliotakis

The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.

— William J. Clinton

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected

— Roy Jenkins

Child labour is an issue of grave importance. It must become a top priority for all governments of the world. How can…

— Craig Kielburger

As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by…

— John Stossel

My mother informed me that the way to be a change agent to create change, the first line of defense, or however…

— Ayanna Pressley

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among…

— Don Nickles

The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man…

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big…

— Marjane Satrapi

Perhaps the one comforting thought I got out of this whole disgusting affair was that over the years when the government was…

— Helen Suzman

It doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether…

— Ronald Reagan

The separation of church and state can sometimes be frustrating for women and men of deep religious faith. They may be tempted…

— Edward Kennedy

Don't Latin Americans have the right to ask why their elected governments are being opposed and coup leaders supported?.. Poverty and hardship…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of…

— Joseph Story

The Iranian government is the government that supplied the arms on the Karin-A to the Palestinian Authority several years ago, they are…

— John Bolton

Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into…

— Peter Drucker

We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not…

— John Adams

If we can’t puncture some of the mythology around austerity, politics or tax cuts or the mythology that’s been built up around…

— Barack Obama

H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am…

— Robert Higgs

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The government has to be flexible in Air India sale price, structure, and employee management plan.

— Mohnish Pabrai

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.

— Sheldon Richman

The Iranian government must respect the rights of all its minorities, release the seven leaders, and emancipate the Baha'i community.

— Omid Djalili

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.

— Pat Robertson

I was in Australia for many years. And the system there is a two-party system and the government changes from time to…

— Frank Lowy

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

— Ted Nugent

I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite…

— Emma Goldman

I am a very strong supporter of our government's view that it is important to engage with all countries around the world…

— Chrystia Freeland

Local government is a gamble that can have disastrous consequences when it fails.

— Joy Reid

I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the…

— Warren Ellis

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

— John Adams

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

— Stephen Harper

Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.

— Alberto Juantorena