Government Quotes · Page 83

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

— David Rockefeller

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

The government takes the opposition day debates incredibly seriously.

— Andrea Leadsom

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

— Lyn Nofziger

I will restore a government based on principle and justice.

— Moon Jae-in

In fact, the media should not be run by the government at all.

— Arvind Kejriwal

I think we're on too many government watch lists. We'd better let this one go.

— Grant Imahara

“He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over…

— Nick Harkaway

Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they…

— Lane Garrison

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

— Michael Newdow

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing…

— John Boyd Orr

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

— Anonymous

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average…

— Terry Pratchett

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

— Ronald Reagan

[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.

— John Adams

the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man…

— Baruch Spinoza

As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do, and I'm used to that. I'm used to…

— Deborah Ellis

Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government…

— Jan Brewer

Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And…

— Antonin Scalia

We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no…

— William Henry Harrison

I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my…

— Abraham Lincoln

I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy…

— James Meredith

“It is a feature of government that the more important the problem, the further it tends to be removed from handling by…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio…

— Neil Young

To [Democrats], government's everything, controlling it, expanding it is everything. And it's not to us [the Republicans]. So they leave nothing to…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by…

— Robert H. Jackson

I submit that the Government exists to provide for the needs of the people, and when it comes to choice between profits…

— J. S. Woodsworth

The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and…

— Charles A. Murray

There's an early 2014 email from Hillary Clinton, not so long after she left the State Department, to her campaign manager John…

— Julian Assange

One of the reasons some of the advocates of ever larger government and more government intrusiveness get nervous about discussions of the…

— Grover Norquist

When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.

— James Cook

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

— Doris Lessing

The highest end of government is the culture of men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The supply of government exceeds demand.

— Lewis H. Lapham

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

— Jennifer Pahlka

I'm not going to do anything that sees a Tory government be likely.

— Nicola Sturgeon

[American's government] thinking they are the judge of the world; they're not.

— Bashar al-Assad

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

— Robert A. Heinlein