Government Quotes · Page 280

From the economy to national security to government ethics, the Republican nominee promised once-in-a-lifetime change if he is elected Nov. 8.

— Paul Gigot

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

— Barbara Tuchman

We are kidding ourselves if we don't think of the drug business as a legitimate business. It's what funds governments. It's too…

— Daniel Craig

Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to…

— Saul Landau

I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of…

— Sierra D. Waters

Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to…

— Gary Johnson

You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.

— William Safire

The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different…

— Milton Friedman

The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self interest for himself, his family, and the future…

— Ron Paul

The U.S. government has rarely, if ever, used the criminal history of a certain immigrant population in determining if the whole community…

— Opal Tometi

I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system…

— Vince Cable

The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown.…

— Rick Santorum

She [Hillary Clinton] wants to go to a single-payer plan, which would be a disaster...she wants to go to single-payer, which means…

— Donald Trump

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the…

— Adam Smith

We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces…

— Gary Locke

Each restorational advancement of the Army of the Lord has established denominational forts that are given responsibility to maintain the purity and…

— Bill Hamon

My own take on it is that government will never adequately represent every person in the country. It can't. It's not possible.…

— Kelsey Grammer

When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or…

— Enoch Powell

Indeed, my wish is quite simple: if we could learn to recognise and evade the biggest errors in our thinking - in…

— Rolf Dobelli

The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire…

— Boris Brasol

Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a…

— James Q. Wilson

Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every…

— Barack Obama

All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it…

— Martin Luther

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.

— Ronald Reagan

We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government.

— Johann Lamont

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

— Peter Diamandis

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

— Tony Blair

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

— Thomas Jefferson

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

— James Bovard

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to…

— Violet Trefusis

If Japanese cannot have new babies quick enough, then the government should start importing workers faster.

— Masayoshi Son

Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents

— Dennis Prager

We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.

— Franklin D Roosevelt

I have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff.

— Susan Rice

Everything you heard about me is true. . . . I am not a free marketer. . . . I believe in the heavy hand of government.

— Bill de Blasio

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

— Jeremy Bentham

“I tip my hat to the new constitution, I take a bow for the new revolution, smile and grin at the change…

— The Who

Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower