Government Quotes · Page 69

The government takes the opposition day debates incredibly seriously.

— Andrea Leadsom

War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government.

— Bertrand Russell

Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.

— Bill Moyers

Americans need government to get out of the way; they'll do the rest.

— John E. James

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

— Jay Weatherill

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

— Dinesh D'Souza

Official aid is more likely to retard development than to promote it.

— Peter Bauer

It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.

— Thomas Jefferson

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

— Alastair Reynolds

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

— James Cook

Email says that no, it is the governments of Saudi and Qatar that have been funding ISIS.

— Julian Assange

We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.

— Buenaventura Durruti

Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient.

— Paul Virilio

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

— Joe Louis

The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.

— Anonymous

It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.

— Robert H. Jackson

... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference…

— Anthony de Jasay

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but…

— Alexander Hamilton

I've worked in the military, in business and nonprofit and local government. Bringing people together and getting stuff done in moments of…

— Jake Auchincloss

Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the…

— George W. Bush

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as…

— William Penn

Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural…

— Thomas Jefferson

I came to Washington primarily to meet other entrepreneurs. That being said, I was also curious to hear how our federal government…

— Neil Blumenthal

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general…

— Martin Van Buren

Koch Industries is an amazing business that has succeeded by building a product that customers love dearly. The folks who run Koch…

— Mike Pompeo

Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that…

— Nazanin Boniadi

Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person?…

— Amity Shlaes

Poverty should be one of the top concerns for any elected leader. It has a negative effect on almost everything we as…

— Ron Crumpton

In Germany, under the law everything is prohibited except that which is permitted. In France, under the law everything is permitted except…

— Newton N. Minow

There's no doubt that what has emerged in the years after 9/11, unlike the situation in Britain, there were practices sanctioned in…

— Douglas Alexander

Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government... They have driven the American economy since its founding,…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

We've been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs, and I…

— Liz Truss

There was a time that I questioned the government's role in abortion.

— Ken Cuccinelli

We are a government that does its homework and listens to the public.

— Gladys Berejiklian

Patriotism has debilitating effects on the people who suffer from it.

— Ilkin Santak

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

— Aristotle

I strongly believe the Government are listening to everything we say.

— Scarlett Moffatt

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

— George Washington

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

— Milton Friedman

The nearest thing to immortality in this world is a government bureau.

— Hugh S. Johnson