Government Quotes · Page 254

This should be the message of Occupy Wall Street: We just want a chance; our government needs to give us a chance.

— Meghan McCain

I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want.

— Anonymous

All communication on today's networks are being monitored by government agencies and private companies.

— Peter Sunde

During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events.

— Tariq Ali

“The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.”

— Stefan Molyneux

It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.

— Shane Claiborne

Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must have free and fair elections and end the corruption of our government. America will only survive if we do those…

— Anna Paulina Luna

To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when people and…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

In China, the rules of the market are not always that transparent. So it's very hard. Also, the national TV networks are…

— Yang Lan

America is on a course, now, that will lead to the final conflagration, The Final War - which has been cold, pretty…

— Louis Farrakhan

I don't want doctors and patients to be having to - having to literally ration care, take away that relationship by having…

— Steve Scalise

Conservatives cannot deny that our Founders intended the judiciary as an equal and independent branch of government purposed to ensure the protection…

— Margaret Hoover

Criminal law has to do with relations between the misbehaving individual and his government...Criminal law establishes rules of conduct; their breach, if…

— Lawrence M. Friedman

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election…

— Abraham Lincoln

The government believes that we will need to take the step of enshrining the Paris goal for net zero emissions in U.K.…

— Andrea Leadsom

Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also…

— Barack Obama

Given the low level of competence among politicians, every American should become a libertarian. The government that governs least is certainly the…

— Charley Reese

We have to convince people that the handouts – just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where…

— Elbert Guillory

I was taking a lot of eyedrops three times a day and I realized I should have it checked out, that's when…

— Marisa Tomei

I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever.…

— Olympia Snowe

The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a…

— Chris Hedges

We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation,…

— Calvin Coolidge

“Does the flat tax work?...The flat tax works in a country that is a former Communist state, with no investment capital, and…

— T.R. Reid

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse…

— Plato

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

— Calvin Coolidge

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

— Ferdinand Mount

People need help to change the way they eat... this is what government is for in my opinion… We should make food…

— Mark Bittman

For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.

— Robert Payne

We must get government out of the way and help foster an environment where small businesses are free to grow and create…

— Sam Graves

No Conservative wants a bad Brexit deal, or to do anything that increases the threat of a Corbyn Government.

— Damian Green

People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.

— Marilyn Ferguson

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.

— Cal Thomas

Legalizing abortion to get government out of the bedroom is like legalizing cannibalism to get government out of the kitchen.

— Joseph Sobran

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

— Frank Chodorov

Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.

— Russ Feingold

I think the founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of…

— James Clapper

“People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can't…

— Megan Abbott

If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.

— Velupillai Prabhakaran

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

— Martha Gellhorn