Government Quotes · Page 323

What's gonna happen to the arms industry when we realize we're all One?...You can see why the government's cracking down.

— Bill Hicks

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to…

— Luc de Clapiers

The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke of London has to call itself the…

— George Bernard Shaw

I think I will still feel that same appreciation for what [Winston] Churchill and others have said is the worst form of…

— Barack Obama

800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.

— Djemal Pasha

It is not my belief that we need greater government regulation of hedge funds with respect to the systemic risk they create.

— Kenneth C. Griffin

We intend to try by every means in our power to seize the country and create a government without bloodshed.

— Sun Yat-sen

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what…

— Larry Flynt

Civil servants are fully aware of the challenges the British economy faces. They are, after all, working tirelessly and professionally to support…

— Anonymous

Before I was elected to Congress, I helped to create the public corruption unit in the office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

Since I got to Washington I've been working to make sure the federal government is doing what's needed to strengthen Georgia's infrastructure…

— Raphael Warnock

Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it…

— David Limbaugh

[In ancient Rome,] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew? Why did France…

— George Lucas

The Constitutional Convention debated whether America should even have a standing army. ... They worried that a powerful military could rival civilian…

— Rachel Maddow

Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street…

— Cornel West

It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we invested in America's future and made…

— Harry Reid

We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Unlike [Woodrow] Wilson, Louis Brandeis did not support the segregation of the federal government. He was personally courteous to African Americans. He…

— Jeffrey Rosen

It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their…

— Thomas Jefferson

The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against…

— G. William Domhoff

During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by…

— Thomas Naylor

I think there are a lot of people who are involved in the Tea Party who have very real and sincere concerns…

— Barack Obama

I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British…

— Muhammad Iqbal

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that…

— Arundhati Roy

Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home.

— Rick Scott

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

— Ralph Steadman

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

— Clarence Thomas

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

— Baruch Spinoza

“In other words, the government of the democracy is the only one under which the power which lays on taxes escapes the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated…

— John Tyler

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

— Lindsey Graham

Since Day 1, we have maintained that ours is a Government dedicated to the poor and will continue to work dedicatedly for…

— Narendra Modi

I don't think the federal government or federal candidates should be making decisions on everything and opining on everything.

— Rick Santorum

This is a typical liberal trick, by the way: Stack the deck so the whole thing fails leaving only one option, the…

— Rush Limbaugh

As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy.

— May-Britt Moser

Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

— Milton Friedman

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

— Harry Browne

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.

— Li Hongzhi

I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.

— Scott McCallum

The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and…

— Paul Johnson