Government Quotes · Page 263

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that…

— Grover Norquist

Some amount of support from government and regulator is required when you are looking at resolving systemic issues.

— Arundhati Bhattacharya

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

— Newt Gingrich

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact,…

— Harry Browne

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

— Spiro T. Agnew

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

— Claire McCaskill

Big money causes me too much trouble with my ex-wives and the government. All I want is to keep busy and to…

— Jake LaMotta

“I believe Government should encourage competition, NOT prop up the weak when the going gets tough.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

We want market-based, consumer-based reforms in health care. We want to give people incentives to make wise choices in a marketplace, not…

— Tim Pawlenty

In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has…

— Ronald Reagan

The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were…

— Thomas Paine

I am very confident that we will be able to convince all the stakeholders - the shareholders, the governments and the employees,…

— Lakshmi Mittal

If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people,…

— Alexander Hamilton

Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed…

— Paul Ryan

Because there are little to no consequences for conducting cyberattacks, criminals and nation-states are becoming bolder in their threats and behavior. Russia,…

— Michael McCaul

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I think Katrina is one more indication of how inefficient and corrupt this Administration is, and indicates the absolute lack of seriousness…

— Bernie Sanders

“To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. you must change man, not systems. Can you and our…

— Rafael Sabatini

BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something…

— Ambrose Bierce

If a dog is biting a black man, the black man should kill the dog, whether the dog is a police dog…

— Malcolm X

No man ever saw the people of whom he forms a part. No man ever saw a government. I live in the…

— Woodrow Wilson

Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to…

— Charles S. Maier

The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war…

— Richard M. Nixon

I am delighted to be involved in the digital divide campaign to ensure that every school is made aware of what steps…

— Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

— Vladimir Putin

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

— Henry A. Wallace

We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent.

— James Warburg

The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party.

— Noam Chomsky

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

— Mitch Daniels

In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.

— Anonymous

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

— Imran Khan

“It's a good thing the American people aren't getting all the government they're paying for.”

— Will Rogers

There's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government

— Dick Cheney

You don't have good government unless you have good people working in government.

— Andy Kim

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about…

— Trevor Rabin

“That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.”

— Richard Epstein

I do not want our society to be one where the government feels free to check your private phone records anytime it…

— Michael Capuano

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis…

— William Howard Taft

Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

— Karl Hess

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk