Government Quotes · Page 132

Even if I wanted to run for Ethiopia, I wouldn't expect the government or federation to choose me to do that.

— Feyisa Lilesa

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

— John Galt

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national…

— Jon Postel

There's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government

— Dick Cheney

You don't have good government unless you have good people working in government.

— Andy Kim

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

— Imran Khan

“It's a good thing the American people aren't getting all the government they're paying for.”

— Will Rogers

In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.

— Anonymous

If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame…

— Michael Bloomberg

I suspect that a lot of the frustration people feel about government would feel a lot better if we had corporate influence…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

If the president were standing here with me today, he would say he works for the American people. I work for him,…

— Jen Psaki

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed…

— Tom Lantos

I can't help thinking if she-the director of a government agency-is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money…

— Matthew Lesko

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving…

— Bill Moyers

Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution…

— George Haven Putnam

No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently…

— James Mill

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst…

— Thomas Paine

The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the…

— John Adams

Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he…

— Wesley Pruden

Home schoolers do not wish to force other parents to home school. Gun owners do not insist that others buy guns, or…

— Grover Norquist

Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric…

— Jeffrey Rosen

I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my…

— Jimmy Carter

Is the American tradition of self-reliance disappearing? That's a painful question for conservatives to ponder. After all, we're dedicated to reducing the…

— Edwin Feulner

Donald Trump represents not the lobbyists, not the elected officials, not the establishment types. These are people that have nothing to do…

— Rush Limbaugh

I do not want our society to be one where the government feels free to check your private phone records anytime it…

— Michael Capuano

“That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.”

— Richard Epstein

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about…

— Trevor Rabin

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

— Henry A. Wallace

“I believe Government should encourage competition, NOT prop up the weak when the going gets tough.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

— Vladimir Putin

Big money causes me too much trouble with my ex-wives and the government. All I want is to keep busy and to…

— Jake LaMotta

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

— Claire McCaskill

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

— Spiro T. Agnew

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

— Mitch Daniels

The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party.

— Noam Chomsky

We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent.

— James Warburg

Instead of cutting waste, the Obama Administration is hurting workers. President Obama should stop protecting wasteful government spending.

— Anonymous

The government is a terrible employer, and that goes for national service jobs as well.

— Charles Murray

We believe open data helps citizens have a better understanding about Seoul's policies and motivates them to join the city government's efforts.

— Park Won-soon

It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you…

— Warren Rudman