Government Quotes · Page 288

Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical…

— Sonny Perdue

The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the…

— Lord George Gordon

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

— Rush Limbaugh

Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men; the least…

— Ralph Moody

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

— John Locke

“A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke”

— Robert Barr

I will fight to protect women's constitutional right to interstate travel without government interference.

— Colin Allred

“Big Government means small citizens: it corrodes the integrity of a people, catastrophically.”

— Mark Steyn

“GUCCI. Label me down with these codes that are commercialed in uniform. Military stripes, commander in chief, veteran in the word play,…

— Jose R. Coronado

As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and relentless. I…

— Dave Barry

Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we…

— Douglas Rushkoff

The structure that is currently in place, inside government, forcing government employees to pay union dues, even if they don't want to…

— Bruce Rauner

Project management is not hard in the same way that theoretical physics is hard - there are tried and trusted methods that…

— Dominic Cummings

I'm not a smuggler, I'm a missionary. I have chosen to be obedient and not turn away from danger. So when government…

— Andrew van der Bijl

The Patriotic Act allows the American government to snoop around anybody's business at any time. Nobody has privacy anymore. Everybody can hack…

— Max Cavalera

The questions which for years were in dispute between the State and General Government, and which unhappily were not decided by the…

— Robert E. Lee

The issue here really is not whether international trade shall be free but whether or not it makes any sense for a…

— Wendell Berry

With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the…

— George Will

The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is…

— Kirkpatrick Sale

If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified…

— Charles A. Beard

If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So…

— Stefan Molyneux

Abortion is a states' rights issue. Education is a states' right issue. Medicinal marijuana is a states' rights issue. Gay marraige is…

— Wayne Allyn Root

The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of…

— Arleigh Burke

Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because…

— Rigoberta Menchu

“Western police officers are an arguably corrupt group of people that have rigged the system to make them almost untouchable.”

— Steven Magee

“That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)”

— Thomas Jefferson

Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration…

— Jean Chretien

They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.

— Howard Zinn

I know as well as anyone that the American people want to know that their hard-earned dollars are being spent wisely by…

— Tom Price

I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.

— Joe Lhota

Socialism starts when government creates a problem, and then government steps in to solve the problem.

— Carly Fiorina

Clean drinking water is vital to every person and community in North Carolina and stopping threats to our water safety is a…

— Roy Cooper

I think a lot of people on both sides have extremely naive views of what government is capable of.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.

— Fred Korematsu

There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains…

— J. D. Vance

As the list of abuses by federal agencies grows, Americans are rapidly losing trust in government.

— Mark Meadows

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

— Bill Owens

We don't need more government, we just need the government we have to work smarter and more efficiently.

— Jaime Harrison

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

— Harry Browne

Spiritual government means a pure government that doesn't discriminate on the lines of caste, creed, or religion.

— Rajinikanth