Government Quotes · Page 54

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

— Benjamin Tucker

It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

— Charles Edward Merriam

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

— Francis Bacon

If the customer loves you, the government will have to love you.

— Jack Ma

We cannot have foreign governments interceding in our elections.

— Robby Mook

“Government is not moved by sympathy. It is moved by ingenuity.”

— Enock Maregesi

A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore! Robert A.

— Robert Heinlein

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

— Benjamin Franklin

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

— Woody Allen

Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it.

— Frederick Leith-Ross

“A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.”

— Thomas Paine

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

— Al Franken

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

— Edward Tufte

I would rather know the truth instead of creating an illusion in which I lie to myself.

— Luis Colon

Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.

— Anonymous

I've been a conservative when it comes to budgeting issues and streamlining government.

— Brian Kemp

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of…

— Anonymous

Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it…

— Ibn Taymiyyah

This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play…

— David Plouffe

Every governor knows better how to manage and provide for quality health care in their respective states than does one-size-fits-all at the…

— Kay Ivey

Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall…

— Henry Knox

To prevent a crippling attack on our nation's critical networks, U.S. companies and the federal government must work together to combat those…

— Michael McCaul

I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support…

— Albert Wynn

My mother knows struggle and has taught me how to lead with compassion, the compassion that should be required for every representative…

— Rashida Tlaib

To make sure we aren't training people for jobs that don't exist, the government should provide companies with loans or loan guarantees.…

— Van Jones

I'm one of those people who believes that part of the greatness of the United States is our private sector. It's what…

— Dick Cheney

Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation…

— Richard Mentor Johnson

For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action…

— Margaret Case Harriman

Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and…

— Joseph Sobran

Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police,not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

You're not going to be able to deliver jobs locally unless you sort out the nation's problems, and that's why the big…

— Enda Kenny

On NAFTA, the Canadian Parliament... is united. We have our partisan differences. When we hold the government to account, as is our…

— Andrew Scheer

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

— Lyn Nofziger

I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.

— Ronald Reagan

Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

— Winston Churchill

The United States government does not negotiate with terrorists.

— Cofer Black

My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

— George Carlin

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I am opposed to abortion and to government funding of abortions.

— Bill Clinton

Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.

— Ronald Reagan