Government Quotes · Page 33

“You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.”

— Abraham Lincoln

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

— John Adams

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

— Julian Assange

Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.

— Rick Santorum

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

— James Reston

“Ukiipenda sana nchi yako ni rahisi sana kuichukia serikali yake!”

— Enock Maregesi

Sometimes we don't realize that the government is for the people by the people.

— Bushwick Bill

Government cannot be all things to all people.

— Jane D. Hull

After I got arrested the Filipino government unshackled me. I knew first-hand how they violated my rights and I could speak about…

— Maria Ressa

The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you're not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.

— John Alejandro King

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

— Margaret Thatcher

There are a lot of things that are done in the federal government that are done because Washington did them.

— Kevin Gutzman

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

— Richard Stallman

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

— Winston Churchill

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

— Al Franken

We are fighting corruption and all illegal activities and building a culture of transparency and ethical governance.

— Ali Bongo Ondimba

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome…

— Frances O'Grady

I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is…

— Dan Glickman

Life is full of joys and sorrows, much of it our own making. Sadly, the West has voted time and time again…

— Mark Skousen

Much more should have been achieved by a Labour Government in office and Labour pressure in opposition. Against the dogged resistance to…

— Anthony Crosland

There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently…

— Baron de Montesquieu

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You…

— George W. Bush

To put it in context, the federal government was, at the beginning [of the Vancouver meeting], talking about a $15-per-tonne floor for…

— Christy Clark

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the…

— Benito Mussolini

Well depending on the government, you either work through the government, which is ideal, because then you're strengthening their capabilities, or you…

— Bill Gates

“The idea that there is are all these people who are going to make all these great and wise decisions with guns.…

— Stefan Molyneux

I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader…

— Barack Obama

If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well,…

— Aristotle

What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the Democrats is that the Amercian dream is…

— Mia Love

Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of…

— Van Jones

What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment” of…

— Vin Suprynowicz

The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I was born black in this country. Trust me, I've seen the government.

— Eddie Griffin

Every country has the government it deserves.

— Joseph de Maistre

Children are rescued from abortion to be killed in war as soldiers.

— Ilkin Santak

I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

— Alphonso Jackson

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

— Francis Bacon

The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.

— Calvin Coolidge

[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.

— Barney Frank