Government Quotes · Page 58

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

— Lyn Nofziger

In opposition, you move to the centre. In government, you move the centre.

— George Osborne

The government that is wise will consider what is best for all its people.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

... the keynote of government is injustice.

— Emma Goldman

Things don't always go according to plan. That's life and that's government.

— Grant Shapps

[Cuba's goverment] is an anti-American government.

— Marco Rubio

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

— William Hague

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

— David Rockefeller

For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of…

— Ronald Reagan

No, I’m not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us…

— Paul Ryan

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the…

— Satish Kumar

Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

— Doug Henwood

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

— Louis D. Brandeis

The Japanese press likes me a lot, but the problem is the Japanese government. It's very bureaucratic.

— Shuji Nakamura

Inside North Korea, we have many informants and spies watching everyone; they're paid by the government. Even a husband and wife can't…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

This group of experts [in cybersecurity] will set up protocols for each agency and government officials, requiring them to follow best and…

— Donald Trump

The vast majority of Americans want a government that creates the conditions for them to have a chance to get into the…

— Marco Rubio

I think the universities have co-opted the intellectual, by and large. But there is an emerging intellectual set coming out of Washington…

— Richard Rodriguez

The federal government needs to get off the backs of small businesses and let the private sector grow and create jobs instead…

— Matt Salmon

So we [Americans] have a history a taking care of each other. Now, for some strange reason starting sort of in the…

— Benjamin Carson

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it…

— George Bernard Shaw

Since its inception, the government has broken and coerced treaties with hundreds of Native American tribes. And this is even worse when…

— W. Kamau Bell

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

— Adam Weishaupt

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

After the war people said, 'If you can plan for war, why can't you plan for peace?' When I was 17, I…

— Tony Benn

The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence…

— Clarence Manion

Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The…

— Albert Einstein

Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like…

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world.…

— Joseph Priestley

“Individualists and collectivists both have been wronged by the government, and we all maintain (consciously or subconsciously) a list of the ways…

— Mike Klepper

After Hurricane Katrina, many people said that the levees were not as effective as the natural vegetation that had been removed at…

— Wangari Maathai

People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are…

— Margaret Thatcher

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

— Jamie Dimon

You don't succeed on corruption in five minutes. I wish one could.

— James Wolfensohn

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

— Ronald Reagan

If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.

— Erich Fromm

Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.

— William J. Clinton

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power

— Stefan Molyneux

Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.

— Confucius