Government Quotes · Page 306

“The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

— Thomas Jefferson

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

— Edmund Burke

Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth.

— Joe Craft

It's not about me, again, this fight is not my fight, it's not the fight of the government ; it's the fight…

— Bashar al-Assad

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

— Thomas Paine

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.

— Edward Snowden

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

— Daniel Webster

Any cooperation that doesn't go through the Syrian government is not legal. If it's not legal, we cannot cooperate with, and we…

— Bashar al-Assad

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…

— Anonymous

One's ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a tool for success, or to use bankruptcy to avoid paying your former…

— John Hickenlooper

What public health really is is a trust. That's why I used the term 'Betrayal of Trust' as the title of my…

— Laurie Garrett

America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that…

— George Will

Actually, Brexit is an incredibly important issue, but it's not the only issue. And to be a credible party of Government you…

— James Cleverly

Before 1994, many South Africans used theater as a voice of protest against the government. But with the end of apartheid, like…

— John Kani

But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if…

— Jim McDermott

If [Donald Trump] doesn't make sure that all the foreign government payments - and this includes banks and other corporations owned by…

— Reince Priebus

I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a…

— Stephen A. Douglas

“There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is…

— Ayn Rand

Government is best which is closest to the people. Yet that belief is betrayed by those State and local officials who engage…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I was a very senior minister in the Howard government and I sat around this particular table [in the prime ministerial office]…

— Tony Abbott

In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of…

— Richard Mitchell

A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still…

— AnnaLynne McCord

And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves…

— Abraham Lincoln

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark..

— Jack Anderson

Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell…

— Ludwig von Mises

Government doesn't have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.

— Marco Rubio

Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing…

— Michael Gove

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient…

— Charley Reese

“the best argument against a democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

— Winston Churchill

A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless…

— Woodrow T Wilson

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

— Harry S. Truman

In our own lives, let each of us ask - not just what government will do for me, but what can I…

— Richard M Nixon

So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because…

— Matthew Lesko

Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of…

— Eric Johnston

The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

— Laurence Tribe

For me, as the Government of India, the interest of the poorest of the poorest is paramount.

— Piyush Goyal

If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.

— Barbara Tuchman

The government shouldn't be involved in this because it's very simple. If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody…

— Wanda Sykes

[John Howard] led the Government. They had the numbers, and just basically automatically went along with the Americans.

— Bob Hawke