Government Quotes · Page 276

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

— Darrell Issa

The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion.

— John Adams

The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some…

— Tim Scott

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

— Albert J. Beveridge

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand…

— Henry David Thoreau

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

— Felix Rohatyn

The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.

— Julian Barnes

Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and…

— Lee Kuan Yew

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is…

— Tom DeLay

Queens is so often treated as a stepchild and labeled as an outer borough. At the very least, if I could help…

— Grace Meng

WikiLeaks is a lot of things. This past year, WikiLeaks was a tool of Russian intelligence and the Russian government and their…

— Rachel Maddow

With these 11 million people here illegally, let's have them registered, know who they are, those that are her paying taxes and…

— Mitt Romney

Businesses just want to increase their profits; it's up to the government to make sure they distribute enough of those profits so…

— Jose Mujica

Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain,…

— Emma Goldman

“I reached down and picked up a baseball bat at my feet and I flung it as hard as it could. It…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions… We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping…

— Barry Goldwater

The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor…

— William Jennings Bryan

Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes…

— Dalai Lama

The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are…

— George Orwell

I want to say that this business of corruption and the fight against corruption is a very serious matter, and sometimes I'm…

— Yemi Osinbajo

People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive.…

— Michael Shermer

Our leaders ranged from bad to extraordinary. But through it all, the GOP was the one party even vaguely amenable to limited-government…

— Rick Wilson

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.

— Carol Bellamy

Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us…

— Barack Obama

The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on…

— Rich Galen

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

— Baron de Montesquieu

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an…

— Olivia De Havilland

The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.

— Lenny Bruce

Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist…

— J. P. Morgan

I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one…

— Michael Moriarty

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

— Samantha Power

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

— Paul Ryan

I will be the government of increasing economic growth and creating jobs. Take it from me that that's the main issue.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

— Henry David Thoreau

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

— Bianca Jagger

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

— Henry Hazlitt

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

Energy is not a political issue for the Modi government. It is our commitment to provide electricity to every household of the…

— Piyush Goyal