Government Quotes · Page 259

I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party…

— Gustav Heinemann

Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each…

— Mark Twain

Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs

— Mohammad Khatami

Narendra Modi promised a future and represented a hope. He wanted to rid the nation of a non-performing, corrupt government. People voted…

— Arun Jaitley

Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in…

— Margot Asquith

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.

— Bill O'Reilly

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

— Aristotle

I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody's private life.

— Rahm Emanuel

Importantly, in several years when we have accomplished all of our enforcement and deportation goals and truly ended illegal immigration for good,…

— Donald Trump

“A compassionate government does not need to pay too much attention to those who don't have needs. True leadership is to fulfill…

— Israelmore Ayivor

It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest…

— Thomas A. Edison

The DISCLOSE Act is a testament to the wisdom of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United. The First Amendment sought to…

— Bradley A. Smith

Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake.…

— Kapil Sibal

To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders,…

— Edwin Newman

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to…

— Jim DeMint

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally,…

— George Washington

To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the…

— Charles A. Reich

But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also…

— Carl Sagan

The Declaration of Independence...is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to 'deny or disparage' other…

— Laura Schlessinger

If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must…

— Richard M. Nixon

Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then…

— Malcolm X

“If the clicker became useless in grown men's hands, no games to watch, no highlights shown, ESPN left with only test patterns…

— Leigh Montville

“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of…

— Aristotle

Since taking office, I've made it clear that the United States was prepared to begin a new chapter of engagement with the…

— Barack Obama

We can get what they are willing to give you or you can take back what they have been keeping from you.…

— Merle Rutledge Jr

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands.

— Ilana Mercer

The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.

— Benjamin Carson

As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.

— Edward Snowden

Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care

— Gordon Brown

Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.

— Bob Barr

So let me get this straight. Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this…

— Chuck Woolery

With Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you?

— Peter Hambleton

You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients.

— Jill Stein

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as…

— Phil Zimmermann

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

— Tommy Douglas

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

— Walter Bagehot

The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives.

— Craig Benson

A back door is a nonstarter. It means we are all not safe... I don't support a back door for any government,…

— Tim Cook

I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up.

— Jeri Ryan