Government Quotes by Bill Gates

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

— Bill Gates

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

— Bill Gates

I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.

— Bill Gates

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

— Bill Gates

Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.

— Bill Gates

The U.S. and Canada are two generous governments and we reach out and partner with anyone who believes in foreign aid.

— Bill Gates

The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.

— Bill Gates

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

— Bill Gates

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything…

— Bill Gates

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve…

— Bill Gates

The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office…

— Bill Gates

Every three years, we have to go to the governments and say, okay, you know you're saving millions of lives and even…

— Bill Gates

How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it.…

— Bill Gates

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll…

— Bill Gates

There's a unique thing about the UK, where you give a very generous foreign aid budget to support globally, which is spent…

— Bill Gates

It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security…

— Bill Gates

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital…

— Bill Gates

You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think…

— Bill Gates

There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money…

— Bill Gates

One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The…

— Bill Gates

I think we knew that this would be just like raising the kids together, this would be a fun thing to do…

— Bill Gates

here are economies like China's economy where it's less than a tenth [of a percent] today, although it is growing, is quite…

— Bill Gates

The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that…

— Bill Gates

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the…

— Bill Gates

Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led…

— Bill Gates

Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.

— Bill Gates

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified…

— Bill Gates

Finally, assuming that many of those are fulfilled, which won't be easy in tight budget times, we're taking the supply side at…

— Bill Gates

Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the…

— Bill Gates

That's the part where the governments have a unique role, and then when it progresses well enough, then existing companies or new…

— Bill Gates

The government is there day in and day out, if you want all kids to have education, if you want to run…

— Bill Gates

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done…

— Bill Gates

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your…

— Bill Gates

We certainly see opportunities in Vietnam for talented people to have jobs in the IT sector, including the improvement of the efficiency…

— Bill Gates

Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the…

— Bill Gates

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion…

— Bill Gates

In most of these things our foundation is a co-funder, so I can say that a polio or an HIV vaccine, that…

— Bill Gates

Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our…

— Bill Gates

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea…

— Bill Gates

I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue…

— Bill Gates