Government Quotes · Page 46

We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.

— George Will

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

— Edward Abbey

“Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.”

— Stefan Molyneux

He who casts a vote decides nothing. He who counts the vote decides everything.

— Joseph Stalin

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

— Benjamin Rush

It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.

— Wanda Sykes

Transparency is the hallmark of Prime Minister Modi's government.

— Piyush Goyal

Self-government is an experiment. It could still fail.

— Bill Kristol

To achieve responsible budget savings, government must be retooled with an effective spending-control system.

— Kevin Brady

I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.

— Lloyd Cutler

“The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.”

— Keith Ablow

Government requires bringing people together and genuinely hearing their issues. It requires the establishment and strengthening of community.

— John Hickenlooper

Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.

— Thomas E. Mann

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

— Ayn Rand

The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

— Tom Coburn

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

— Voltaire

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that…

— Winston Churchill

I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in…

— Josh Mandel

The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953…

— Edward Said

The actions taken by the Cuban government with its new trade zone open up the potential of strategic investments from Mexico. Mexican…

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There's always a base right outside the…

— Elliott Abrams

I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of…

— George Washington

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government.…

— Shimon Peres

Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator…

— Michael Enzi

I think we need to understand what we mean when we talk about closure, we don't mean transfer or prosecute which is…

— Jennifer Daskal

Government has only one religion - India first! Government has one holy book - the Constitution. The Government must be immersed in…

— Narendra Modi

You know, you just know, that after the president goes out there and announces he wants to make community college free for…

— John Podhoretz

As a senator, I raised the alarm about sub prime mortgages. I fought to hold reckless manufacturers accountable for toxic toys and…

— Hillary Clinton

No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West…

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured…

— Adam Smith

“I think the purpose of government is for a population to accomplish its mutually agreed-upon goals without every citizen having to accomplish…

— Robert Peate

Who's going to do a better job of spending your money? You or the government?

— Kathy Szeliga

“How is ignoring me working out for you?”

— Steven Magee

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

— Brad Henry

We're a very religious country; the government's secular.

— Tucker Carlson

In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.

— Malcolm Gladwell

If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.

— Vinoba Bhave

The role of the federal government, if any, is to create more school choice.

— Jeb Bush

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

— William Weld