Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application. — William Weld Copy Share Image
The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Italians have famously low levels of trust in their government, and a tradition of medical hoaxes. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
It is wrong for the federal government to deny benefits or privileges to couples who have lawfully wed. — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
Ultimately, any government is one which enjoys the majority of support of members of Parliament to carry out a policy. — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else. — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
It was while starting my business that I saw my first glimpse of government's impact on business. — Kay Granger Copy Share Image
Women are the key to successful development and ongoing progress. In the workforce, their ingenuity, determination, and hard work help our economies… — Tedros Adhanom Copy Share Image
Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of… — Eddy Cue Copy Share Image
“The beautiful stranger cuddled Cindy, and she rocked the chair slightly as she spoke softly to her. “Suicide is a problem, not… — Shafter Bailey Copy Share Image
After decades of persistent, courageous advocacy - often at risk to their own lives, livelihoods, and safety - African Americans succeeded in… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We need the private sector's help, because government is not innovating. Technology is running ahead by leaps and bound. The private sector… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to roll back government regulations.Trump plans to nominate fast food executive Andrew Puzder to head… — Rachel Martin Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan cut taxes to raise the deficit to stop liberals in future years from increasing spending. Obama will raise spending to… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Government, we are sometimes told, is just another word for things we choose to do together. Like a lot of things politicians… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
I know that in South Africa, we were in that space, and we're still suffering from that space. And that was where… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital.… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people. — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
Obviously if there are guns on the street there's going to be more violence. That being said, I happen not to trust… — Slaine Copy Share Image
Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games. — Louise Erickson Copy Share Image
The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to… — Sam Ewing Copy Share Image
All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances. — Henry Abbey Copy Share Image
One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
I think you should use whatever power you have to try to help people who need your help. Then we'd all be… — Clive Stafford Smith Copy Share Image
We've lost that very simple transaction that's so pure, where a reader can say, "I support what you're doing, here's my dollar.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
