Government Quotes · Page 252

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion…

— Bill Gates

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

— Hugo Black

Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care…

— John Quincy Adams

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

— James Russell Lowell

The great American work ethic has not been lost, but it has been eroded by years of dumb government policies that Mr.…

— Stephen Moore

Why is the government of India uncomfortable with Jamaat-e-Islami? It is an organisation that has worked tirelessly for Kashmiris.

— Mehbooba Mufti

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

— Don Nickles

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

— Mark Twain

Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is…

— Stefan Molyneux

When the government tries to run innovation, sometimes it does it well and sometimes it doesn't. So setting up a situation where…

— Stewart Brand

Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from…

— Jonathan Zittrain

There is no doubt at all that the government monopoly over the insurance business had to end. There is a crying need…

— Sucheta Dalal

If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management…

— John Quincy Adams

Whatever happened to Warren Buffett, the world's their-richest man? Guilt, a feeling of being blessed by luck, forgotten lessons - who knows?…

— Larry Elder

Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail,…

— Rush Limbaugh

Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was…

— Anonymous

America, like Britain before her, is now the great defender of the Status Quo. She has committed herself against revolution and radical…

— Richard Barnet

The idea that the United States can't guard its own border is silly. It's a sign that were not serious about this...people…

— Newt Gingrich

As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing…

— Harrison Schmitt

I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year,…

— James Meredith

“Almost all the prosperity of a public society and civil community does, under God, depend on their rulers. They are like the…

— Jonathan Edwards

It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we…

— Thomas Jefferson

All our moves are based on four general principles: continued use of the rifle, no waiving of historical rights, no peace, and…

— Yasser Arafat

The White House - now shares the same name as the new government center in Moscow. The name originally comes from Egypt.…

— Michael Tsarion

Any recognition by the government for your performance and achievements always boosts the confidence of an athlete.

— Dutee Chand

The federal government can't remodel every firehouse and buy every new policeradio in the name of Homeland Security.

— Bob Inglis

The reality is that the Republican Party may have unified government but is not unified enough on many major signature policy areas.

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We see this plan as a thinly-disguised plan to give the banking sector and government access to gold for the nations benefit.

— Julian Phillips

I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in…

— Ibrahim Hooper

Corporate and government surveillance aren't separate; they're an alliance of interests.

— Bruce Schneier

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

— Samantha Power

Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.

— James Cook

No government can give a selective advantage to a specific company, because that would make competition unfair.

— Margrethe Vestager

I don't trust the church or the government, and anything the church or the government tells me I assume to be a…

— Killer Mike

[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

“When you know the government is corrupt at the outset, the smart avoid interacting with them.”

— Steven Magee

The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions.

— Dick Armey

Libertarians believe that the government should stay out of private lives on issues that don't have a bearing on society as a…

— Norah Vincent

I'm just am amazed that he seems to think the Iraqi government and our allies and everybody else launched the attack on…

— Hillary Clinton