Government Quotes · Page 107

Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.

— Laozi

The government - they're completely useless.

— Chamath Palihapitiya

I don't get why the government is the only one that gets to print money.

— Stephen Colbert

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

— Imran Khan

In America we believe there ought to be limits on government.

— Karl Rove

A libertarian is a conservative who got mugged by his government.

— Anonymous

I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.

— George W. Romney

A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.

— Jarvis Cocker

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

— Ilkin Santak

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free…

— Frances Wright

Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become … a far greater aggressor.

— John Hospers

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.

— Corazon Aquino

Whenever there are some who have more opportunities than others, this feeds corruption.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.

— James Bovard

The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.

— Pierre Trudeau

People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.

— Will Rogers

The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people…

— Mark Steyn

Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a…

— Mary B. Harris

We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee,…

— David Dinkins

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and…

— Ronald Reagan

There is a First Amendment right to speak in a encrypted way… The right to speak P.G.P. is like the right to…

— Eben Moglen

Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government.…

— Ban Ki-moon

Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have…

— Walter E. Williams

And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are…

— Anonymous

..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in…

— C. S. Lewis

“But having biologists outside the Beltway remained a problem for the adminisration. "They found they couldn't control us," Williams said... "That sort…

— Joe Roman

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police,not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Our soldiers in another area were attacked chemically. Our soldiers - they went to the hospital as casualties because of chemical weapons,…

— Bashar al-Assad

Syria is a civil war. Syria began as a popular uprising, just like the other experiences in the Arab Spring, with a…

— Susan Rice

I was a history and government major at Ohio State University, and I've spent a lot of time just fiddling around with…

— Bobby Knight

NewSpace, commercial space - whatever you want to call it - is rising, with or without government support. It is rising in…

— Rick Tumlinson

Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.

— Sarah Palin

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

— Gladys Berejiklian

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

— Bob Wells

It's impossible for the government to curb property prices.

— Carrie Lam

The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth.

— Pythagoras

Some things never change, suck up to the government and you get an honour.

— George Osborne

Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.

— Willem Dafoe

No one branch of the U.S. government should have supremacy over the other two.

— Chellie Pingree