Government Quotes · Page 68

We need a government policy all-out in favor of more, denser housing.

— Glenn Kelman

Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

— Joy Baluch

Any move to reduce government spending is a positive for the economy.

— Stephen Moore

No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

Government transparency and efficiency start with a trustworthy team.

— Kay Ivey

I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.

— Ronald Reagan

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

— Paul Harvey

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love

— Rita Mae Brown

The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.

— Peter Camejo

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

— William Weld

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

— Thomas Jefferson

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

— L. Neil Smith

Republicans must reject chaos and remove the shackles of dysfunction from our government.

— Colin Allred

It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

— Bob Schaffer

[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.

— Nick Clegg

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am a firm believer in democratic representative government as the best form for those who have the tolerance and self-restraint that…

— Bertrand Russell

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine…

— Nhat Hanh

Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their…

— Oliver DeMille

In America, we are living in a society which is moving more and more toward an oligarchic form of society where government…

— Bernie Sanders

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm going to quit music. Then the government of Japan asked me to write a piano concerto - that was an offer…

— Yoshiki

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war;…

— Richard Rorty

No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will…

— Eric Hoffer

I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they…

— Marco Rubio

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question:…

— Meg Whitman

Housing, it's not a plaything. It's not something that you can just play around with. It is, I believe, the rubric of…

— Jumaane Williams

The principle of allegiance to the Constitution is basic to our freedom....when you see government invading any of these realms of freedom…

— J. Reuben Clark

Yes, 4% is the government-mandated target to the MPC. The plus/minus 2 percentage-point upper and lower bands are the tolerance levels specified…

— Urjit Patel

To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of…

— Norman Mailer

The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance and produce the effects of a treasonable correspondence with…

— Edward Gibbon

The Congress has provided people with MNREGA, Right to Information, food security, voting right to youths attaining the age of 18 years,…

— Nagma

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

— Woodrow Wilson

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

— Henry David Thoreau

Wireless carriers certainly don't need the federal government's help.

— Ajit Pai

You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.

— Brian Wilson

I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.

— Danica Patrick

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

— Will Rogers

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

— Winston Churchill

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

— Ronald Reagan