Government Quotes · Page 130

I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.

— Joe Arpaio

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of…

— Ronald Reagan

No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.

— Mike Quigley

American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.

— Nikki Haley

The danger with Bill C-11 is that it gives the government the ability to use technology as a means of social control.

— Leslyn Lewis

If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit.

— Tim Scott

Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from…

— John Jay Hooker

I leave Medicare alone. I create a new system for everyone under 65 where they get health care as a right. It's…

— John Delaney

Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it…

— Robert Reich

Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when…

— Edward Abbey

So, it's pretty crazy. Look, we're bailing out Wall Street, we're bailing out banks, we're bailing out car companies. In fact, did…

— Jay Leno

I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal…

— Susan B. Anthony

If you're going to get up to Walt Whitman and Robert Frost and Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath you've got to figure…

— Robert Hass

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are 1. Security to…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye…

— Thomas Carlyle

Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led…

— Bill Gates

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none…

— Thomas Jefferson

It would be a very odd chancellor of any UK government that insisted on a course of action that cost their own…

— Nicola Sturgeon

A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen…

— Bill Moyers

If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to…

— Herbert Hoover

Had not a conviction of the danger to which an unlimited occupation of the executive chair would expose the republican Constitution of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Unlike return, however, risk is no more quantifiable at the end of an investment that it was at its beginning. Risk simply…

— Seth Klarman

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

— Ralph Steadman

The actual, long-term results of most big-government policies are opposite to the intended results.

— Archie M Richards

Government is at its best when you've got servant leaders that are acting for the good of the public.

— Doug Burgum

Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of…

— Bob Schieffer

The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.

— Bruce Rauner

I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

— Joseph Heller

So bitcoin gives us an opportunity to reclaim the power of the people to say yes or no to what the government…

— Stefan Molyneux

When I'll... form a government, I don't intend to cooperate with those who go against the State of Israel.

— Benny Gantz

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

— James Madison

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

— Anonymous

“I was truly shocked at what I found when I researched why I could not get my government disability payments.”

— Steven Magee

Whatever the needs of the public are, the government responds to those needs by getting larger.

— Dave Barry

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

— Ben Jonson

I don’t believe in involving the government in enforcing or encouraging the lifestyle of gays and homosexuals.

— Bill McCollum

Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send…

— Timothy Murphy

The ONLY thing that seems to band all nations together, is that their governments are universally bad.

— Frank Zappa