Government Quotes · Page 800

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

— John Paul Stevens

The frustration of our [The Daily] show is- very much outside any parameters of the media or the government. We don't have…

— Jon Stewart

People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes…

— Carl Paladino

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

— William O. Douglas

As the Nazi regime developed over the years, the whole structure of decision-making was changed. At first there were laws. Then there…

— Raul Hilberg

If people can't expect their government to be honest and clean, they can't expect anything from it.

— Josh Hawley

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper…

— Anonymous

Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to…

— Richard Ebeling

Since I got to Washington I've been working to make sure the federal government is doing what's needed to strengthen Georgia's infrastructure…

— Raphael Warnock

Blair's support for the Americans should not be seen as an aberration; on the contrary, it is closely linked to the main…

— Martin Jacques

Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and…

— Geoff Mulgan

“A nanny state is hostile to liberty. Any attempt to institute or continue it should be opposed, root and branch. Government intervention…

— Laurence M. Vance

This should be the message of Occupy Wall Street: We just want a chance; our government needs to give us a chance.

— Meghan McCain

When there was a Congress government in Maharashtra, no one bothered about law and order.

— Raj Thackeray

The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common…

— Bobby Scott

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.

— Samuel Johnson

“Susan Margaret Collins was born on December 7, 1952 in Caribou, Maine and is presently the senior United States Senator from Maine.…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our…

— William Henry Ashley

“But we must accept one central truth and responsibility as participants in a democracy: Freedom is not a state; it is an…

— John Lewis

Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders…

— Seth Klarman

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

— Robert M. Gates

Our government has made a whole lot of promises that, in the long run, it cannot possibly keep without huge tax increases.

— David Walker

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

— James Bovard