Government Quotes · Page 51

It's been an enormous privilege to be the government chief scientific adviser.

— Mark Walport

God is a great expense but government would be impossible without him.

— George Moore

“How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?”

— Woodrow Wilson

Trust in our government is built on transparency and faith in the rule of law.

— Dean Phillips

There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.

— Emma Goldman

“When the government does the job of a parent, that's socialism.”

— Marybeth Hicks

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.

— Bianca Jagger

Disaster management should be coordinated by the federal government, .. It is our exact responsibility.

— Alcee Hastings

I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money…

— Bob Hope

Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

— Thomas Jefferson

So actually we didn't have any contacts with UFO organizations. It was all strictly government.

— Betty Hill

Maryland needs someone in Congress who will fight to create jobs, stop out-of-control government spending and defend small businesses.

— Andrew P. Harris

Lowering the middle-class tax rate... will likely lower work efforts and increase government dependence.

— Edward Conard

The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government.

— John McCain

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

— James Cook

A united Europe is our Continent's only chance to avoid falling off the world's radar. The heads of government of Germany, France…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of…

— George Bernard Shaw

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon…

— Samuel Chase

It was the students who entered kindergarten in 2011 who are - and I am weighing my words carefully - the sacrificed…

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses; a government which keeps its commitments and a government…

— Tony Abbott

In reality, if Democrats truly cared about solutions to our immigration crisis they would have done so long ago - like in…

— Kayleigh McEnany

The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Silencing the U.S. State Department, putting a friend of Vladimir Putin's in charge at the U.S. State Department, who stands by quietly…

— Rachel Maddow

“Since man always remains free and since his freedom is always fragile, the kingdom of good will never be definitively established in…

— Pope Benedict XVI

We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Our values are precious: the freedom to elect or kick out a government; the freedom to worship in different places; and the…

— Liz Kendall

Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the…

— William E. Jenner

I'm trying to be morally responsible and no more. I don't have an agenda I'm trying to push. People talk about Three…

— Sydney Pollack

Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so…

— Gary North

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is…

— Louis D. Brandeis

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the…

— Aristotle

“Law enforcement are the public face of corrupt corporate governments.”

— Steven Magee

The first responsibility of any just government is to defend the defenseless.

— Mike Johnson

Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

— Patrick Henry

My basic rule is that I want people who don't want a job in government.

— Ronald Reagan

I hate rules. I hate government intervention. Just live and let live, man.

— Rob Ford

Time Is Speeding Up In Relation To Corruption. Hold On Tight.

— Dean Cavanagh

War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

— Thomas Paine

The case for government by elites is irrefutable.

— J. William Fulbright