Government Quotes · Page 65

Government today, far from protecting property, is its main threat.

— Roger Pilon

I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.

— Barry Goldwater

Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.

— Michael Steele

The government in Russia does not tell me what to do with my assets.

— Mikhail Prokhorov

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

— Anonymous

Every now and then the government must defend itself against itself.

— Vikrant Parsai

The public needs to know that any Government has a sense of purpose.

— Damian Green

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

— Ronald Reagan

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

— Glenn Beck

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

— Roger Wicker

“If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.”

— A.E. Samaan

Corporate and government surveillance aren't separate; they're an alliance of interests.

— Bruce Schneier

After 1984, no ruling party in the State has won to form the government the second time.

— J. Jayalalithaa

Public housing in New York City has been so savagely defunded by the federal government.

— Ritchie Torres

If a person is ashamed of himself, it means that the next stage of development has come.

— Ilkin Santak

A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special…

— William Greider

There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear…

— Alice Mattison

“Once humanity discovers what's behind the mirror of all the ruling class of governments and religions there will be a new beginning…

— Charleston Parker

I love being ankle deep in conversations about sewers and potholes. That's where my heart has always been, and city government has…

— Michelle Wu

I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am…

— Tom DeLay

As president, I decided that a strong, confident America could advance our national security by engaging directly with the Iranian government. We've…

— Barack Obama

After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no…

— Sheikh Hasina

When an American government takes on characteristics that elevate the state above the individual, it must be vigorously opposed as a form…

— Scott Pruitt

China's republican politics is like a child who just started schooling. He must have a good teacher and be surrounded by good…

— Sun Yat-sen

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

To keep up with the demands of the growing manufacturing sector, our Government is pleased to invest in the establishment of the…

— Michelle Rempel

The right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial, and least understood of those liberties secured by…

— Joyce Lee Malcolm

With more than half of the American workforce without private pension coverage, Social Security provides economic certainty within a system that is…

— Mike Quigley

The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in…

— Spencer Abraham

I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I…

— James Madison

I believe, unlike people that are totally free-market, laissez-faire fundamentalists, that there is an important role that the government can play -…

— Nouriel Roubini

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

— James F. Byrnes

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

— Edith Sitwell

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

— Anonymous

The Muslim Brotherhood can't even penetrate the Egyptian government,

— Ibrahim Ali

If this government is like the last one, then Iraq will break apart.

— Saleh al-Mutlaq

It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people.

— L. Brent Bozell, Jr

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

— James Madison

“Life is a service. Serve in the grace of strength within thy soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita