The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Citizens must have confidence in their government, and that starts with the Commissioner of Revenue. — Kay Ivey Copy Share Image
The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control. — Jethro Tull Copy Share Image
While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name… — Richard Jewell Copy Share Image
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
In order to maintain public trust in government, elected officials must answer for what they do and say; this includes 140-character tweets. — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
Let's not forget that one poll after another clearly demonstrates that well over 50% of Russian citizens still wants both socialism and… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Anyplace market forces have been artificially removed by the government there is a total absence of incentives, competition, effective oversight, cost controls… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
After taking office, I vowed that the Moore-Miller administration would focus on four key pillars of progress in our first legislative session:… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Government caters to those screaming the loudest, regardless of what they're screaming about. In business, it's exactly the opposite! You invest more… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
My position is that I am personally opposed to abortion, but I don't think I have a right to impose my view… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
I write about how in Midland, the mayor instituted water conservation measures like restrictions on car washing. He made a point though… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps. My mom then got Pell Grants,… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America. — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
We expect to foster a conservative governing philosophy consisting of limited government and respect for traditional American virtues. — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
By raising bread-and-butter issues, we remind the Government of the things that it may forget or ignore. — Pritam Singh Copy Share Image
We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government… — Lionel Jospin Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton wants to put the government totally in charge of your health care despite the fact it's no good. It'll be… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems. — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is no doubt whatsoever that the U.S. government, lead by Mr. Bush, planned and participated in a coup d'etat in Venezuela… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government. — William Weld Copy Share Image
“John Jay put it as bluntly as possible: “Those who own the country ought to govern it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself. — Franz von Papen Copy Share Image
Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
