Government Quotes · Page 62

The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.

— Tim Cook

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

— Kwame Nkrumah

“The police are a reflection of their corrupt government employer.”

— Steven Magee

I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.

— Antonio Banderas

Evolution of consciousness consists of the gap between generations.

— Ilkin Santak

In a unity government, it's very difficult to move anything at all.

— Ayelet Shaked

In a democracy, everyone has the right to criticise the Government.

— Narendra Modi

I think the government ought to stay out of the religious business.

— Jimmy Carter

Don't steal, don't lie, don't cheat, don't sell drugs. The government hates competition.

— Hussein Nishah

People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.

— Elliott Abrams

Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.

— Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

— Abraham Lincoln

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

— Bertolt Brecht

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

— George S. Patton

Many people at different levels of the Russian government are open to crypto-currencies.

— Vitalik Buterin

We should never forget the government should be held accountable for providing services.

— Margaret Chan

The Government has boxed itself in by trying to codge together this weird fake Brexit in the hope of committing people to…

— Jo Johnson

If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority…

— Vince Cable

I'm a typical Delhi girl. Professional parents, nuclear family. My father was in the navy. I've spent my whole life in government…

— Swara Bhaskar

I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any…

— Vin Diesel

Mitt Romney knows America's prosperity didn't happen because our government simply spent more. It happened because our people used their own money…

— Marco Rubio

To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and…

— Joel Miller

We've got the government shutdown, but the beginning of Obamacare. You know what that means? You can now complain to your doctor…

— Jay Leno

Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people…

— Jeff Cooper

Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and…

— Valerie Plame

“That is indeed the best way to dumb down the masses: make them do the same thing over and over; let them…

— Maude Julien

Part of the uprising of Latin America, particularly in the last 10 to 15 years, has been a reaction to [neoliberal regime],…

— Noam Chomsky

Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes…

— Dalai Lama

The first question for me is: Are same-sex unions ‘marriages’? I’m against discrimination, I’m against hatred, I’m in favor of marriage equality,…

— Maggie Gallagher

This spirit [of Party], unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It…

— George Washington

The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has…

— Thomas Sowell

Tactics and strategies ought to be based on what the real world is, and we do not have the political power to…

— Tom Coburn

Our government has been pro-poor, progressive, and people-oriented.

— Naveen Patnaik

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

— Nicola Sturgeon

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

— Will Rogers

As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.

— James Hansen

“Just following orders' is no excuse unless you're in the bedroom.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.

— Thomas Sowell

As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.

— Joel Miller

“The more laws that are created, the closer we get to lawlessness.”

— J.S.B. Morse