Government Quotes · Page 109

[American's government] thinking they are the judge of the world; they're not.

— Bashar al-Assad

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

— Jennifer Pahlka

I'm not going to do anything that sees a Tory government be likely.

— Nicola Sturgeon

The highest end of government is the culture of men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The supply of government exceeds demand.

— Lewis H. Lapham

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

— Doris Lessing

When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.

— James Cook

In fact, the media should not be run by the government at all.

— Arvind Kejriwal

The government should stop emphasizing difference and engage with Muslims as citizens, not through their religious identity.

— Munira Mirza

Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!

— P. J. O'Rourke

There is a heated debate in Turkey these days over whether the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is furthering democracy…

— Mustafa Akyol

Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged.

— Thomas Jefferson

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the…

— Marco Rubio

High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they…

— Thomas Sowell

A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the…

— Joschka Fischer

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

— Giambattista Vico

There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans have known for some time - that the ten most dangerous…

— Ronald Reagan

There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A…

— Charley Reese

Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The ultimate check against government tyranny is an informed electorate who will elect people who believe in limited government. I don't want…

— Lindsey Graham

It's hard to argue with the government. Remember, they are they run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, so they must…

— Scott Adams

There are established processes of consultation between the Government, the parastatals and the trade unions, which have worked in the past. And…

— Thabo Mbeki

Suddenly it was obvious to Connor why they don't teach it. Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn't want kids knowing…

— Neal Shusterman

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows…

— John Berger

Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor.…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural…

— Max Lerner

Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against…

— Ludwig von Mises

I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy,…

— Frank Zappa

What Mr. Muhammad says is, they should take their Navy and their - Merchant Fleet and ship us back where they got…

— Malcolm X

One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

I think we're on too many government watch lists. We'd better let this one go.

— Grant Imahara

I will restore a government based on principle and justice.

— Moon Jae-in

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

— Lyn Nofziger

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

The government takes the opposition day debates incredibly seriously.

— Andrea Leadsom

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

— David Rockefeller

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

— Jamie Dimon