Government Quotes · Page 515

The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and…

— Jeb Bush

The so-called second New Deal of 1935 - including the Works Progress Administration, Social Security and the Wagner Act legalizing union labor…

— Robert Dallek

The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal…

— Mark Zandi

If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go…

— Frederick Douglass

Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with…

— John Pugsley

Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily…

— Walter E. Williams

I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned…

— Dick Gephardt

If you're not geographically diverse, it's hard to even speak a language that makes sense to folks in faraway places. That's especially…

— Steve Bullock

Founded in rebellion against colonial tyranny, our country is naturally suspicious of government intrusion, interference, and snooping. European systems, by comparison, grow…

— Jacob Weisberg

I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years…

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views…

— Eliot Spitzer

All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights…

— Lysander Spooner

Fraud has boomed during the covid crisis, with losses hitting a record 2 billion. That is why it's imperative the Government does…

— Angela Rippon

But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would…

— Adam Weishaupt

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government…

— Ani DiFranco

I suspect it's because Truman Democrats have been replaced by Gruber Democrats - self-styled elitists who feed lavishly at the public trough…

— Jack Kelly

The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and…

— Hugo Black

I've fought very hard against populism throughout my political career. I'm very happy that Greece now has a moderate, results-oriented, non-populist government.

— Kyriakos Mitsotakis

To me the smart thing that governments in the Middle East would be doing right now is taking their oil and gas…

— Thomas Friedman

All the stuff that makes life worth living is produced privately, and all that the government does is slow down the progress…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

... our government is heading in the direction of violent revenge, with the prospect of sons, daughters, parents, friends in distant lands…

— Orlando Rodriguez

Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to…

— Tony Auth

Keeping the people's government open is not a concession to me. Keeping vital service running and hundreds of thousands of Americans on…

— Barack Obama

The tea party movement sprung from plain old disenchantment, disappointment, and outright anger at being fleeced by a government who mistook their…

— Dana Loesch

E governance can bring minimum government and maximum governance. It is easy, effective and economic governance. It brings empowerment, equity and efficiency…

— Narendra Modi

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what…

— Susan Sontag

“Under Goh, the government continued to be suspicious of prevailing popular opinion and special interests, and focused instead on what it saw…

— Cherian George

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a…

— Lysander Spooner

In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government.…

— Barack Obama

But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been…

— Bruce Sterling

We have a deeply rooted misconception in our country that unhoused people have done something to deserve their conditions - when the…

— Cori Bush

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending…

— Wilfrid Laurier

I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration…

— Naveen Jain

Sometimes there are leftwing governments I'm very critical of. For me, being leftwing is to live in a society where there's permanent…

— Costa-Gavras

Government-to-government aid rests on socialistic assumptions and promotes socialism and stagnation, whereas private foreign investment rest on capitalist assumptions and promotes private…

— Henry Hazlitt

The real question is whether the federal government should be in the business of redistributing wealth to equalize the economic status of…

— Bill Foster

For me to get out in the congressional district that I represent and see all the things that we manufacture there, produce…

— Reid Ribble

If you start getting involved with government on, this one gets this pay and this one gets that pay, then you say,…

— Donald Trump

The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing…

— Charles Lindbergh