Government Quotes · Page 291

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

— Woody Allen

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

— Hugo Black

With Richard Splett, he's like the only character on 'Veep' that has no angle. He's guileless. He also believes in the power…

— Sam Richardson

The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.

— Bob Brown

No, if there is an aspect of the executive branch of the government that needs looking at, I'm liable to be called…

— Bill Goldberg

I am firmly of the view that the Missouri citizens deserve transparent and accountable government, especially in the expenditure of their tax…

— Josh Hawley

'Cartel Land' seeks to give voice to the people of Mexico who suffer grievous harm from cartel violence and government corruption.

— Matthew Heineman

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

— Rick Perry

If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means…

— Thomas Jefferson

My fundamental interests are to preserve the good name and standing of this Australian Labor Party and to act in the national…

— Kevin Rudd

An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing'…

— Wendy Wright

American diplomats meet with formal government officials, we meet with opposition protesters, not just in Hong Kong or China. This literally happens…

— Morgan Ortagus

I've always been interested in politics and current factors and I think it's so important for young people to be interested in…

— Amelia Dimoldenberg

Referendums are designed to get round parliamentary government, and people only demand referendums when they think they can't get a majority in…

— Kenneth Clarke

From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge…

— Arundhati Roy

I think there are people in this Congress who actually believe that government does not have a benign role in the lives…

— Dennis Kucinich

As Americans, we have a long history with firearms. We also have a government built on compromise, so here is the compromise…

— Nick Symmonds

Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an…

— Chester Middlebrook Pierce

The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same…

— Larry McDonald

“Roosevelt spoke eloquently, in his penetrating tenor, of those 'who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the…

— Susan Quinn

Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origin in the principles…

— Thomas Paine

The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people;…

— James Madison

Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when…

— Rudolf Rocker

The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of…

— George Will

Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.

— Wang Jianlin

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder…

— Alan Shepard

I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.

— Robert Kocharian

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things…

— John Milton

Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the…

— Oliver D. Crisp

The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles…

— Charles Hodge

If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.

— Ezra Klein

What we've seen in government for so often is that people have been shady - about their roles, hiding things, not releasing…

— Sean Spicer

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

— Dennis Prager

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that…

— William Weld

I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.

— Barney Frank

But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.

— Jane Byrne

I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.

— James Hansen

Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's…

— Virender Sehwag

We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them.

— James Madison

“purges and vaporizations were a necessary part of the mechanics of government. The”

— George Orwell