Government Quotes · Page 789

The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative…

— Hannah Arendt

I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.

— Edward Snowden

Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man.

— Robert Prechter

President Obama's executive actions give work permits and federal entitlement benefits to people illegally in America - in direct violation of the…

— Donald Trump

The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but…

— Edmund Burke

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

— Harry Browne

If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that…

— Newt Gingrich

The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles…

— Charles Hodge

I think the Bushes would have liked President Coolidge, though I often wonder what nickname 43 would pick for 30. President Bush…

— Amity Shlaes

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

— Theodore Parker

We see this plan as a thinly-disguised plan to give the banking sector and government access to gold for the nations benefit.

— Julian Phillips

Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth…

— Alexander H. Stephens

To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power…

— David Nasaw

We aspire to be a government for all New Zealanders and one that will seize the opportunity to build a fairer, better…

— Jacinda Ardern

Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands-off is not particularly inspiring.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I…

— Sarah Palin

“nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited…

— Winston Churchill

I will be the government of increasing economic growth and creating jobs. Take it from me that that's the main issue.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank,…

— Sam Levenson

Sometimes we don't realize that the government is for the people by the people.

— Bushwick Bill

Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to…

— Frederick Douglass

Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is…

— Rick Perry

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

— William Weld

From day one, the mission of my government based on transparency was to improve the lives of our citizens, to eradicate their…

— Ram Nath Kovind