Government Quotes · Page 133

In many aspects of government, as in the tech world and investing, brains and temperament smash experience and seniority out of the…

— Dominic Cummings

I see the job of attorney general as the single most important legal office in the country when you can't trust the…

— Zephyr Teachout

The government needs to defend its people, to take necessary actions even if they are extremely painful and tragic.

— Isaac Herzog

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

— Rush Limbaugh

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

— Lee J. Cobb

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.

— Keith O'Brien

We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women

— Sima Samar

It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.

— James Cook

Conversely, conservatives assume that humans are fundamentally lazy and prone to immorality. In this view, the entitlement system coddles and rewards laziness.…

— Krystal Ball

The media has been very bad about informing us about what is going on. They focus on surface things. They do not…

— Nat Hentoff

The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate…

— Geoff Mulgan

If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to…

— Thomas Sowell

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical…

— Jurgen Habermas

Group events like cricket, football and kabaddi have private leagues, which are all being played for money. There are no such events…

— Dutee Chand

It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government…

— Dianne Feinstein

Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We…

— Cass Sunstein

But again, you know, the views that we've expressed are transferring power back from the federal government to the states, giving Alaska…

— Joe Miller

The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment . . . of total separation of Church and State. .…

— John Tyler

Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of…

— Brian Eno

The institution of representative government to us seems an essential part of democracy, but the ancients never thought of it. Its immense…

— Bertrand Russell

Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I consider both the West Bank and Gaza to be colonised, even though Gaza is not occupied in the same way that…

— Judith Butler

You know, the primary process itself is very confusing. But in the end, I guess I believe what Winston Churchill said, which…

— Geoffrey Cowan

“Now, paper and pencils," said Miss Marcy, clapping her hands. Writing paper is scarce in this house, and I had no intention…

— Dodie Smith

People are voluntarily giving money to A.E.I. - there is no government money - because they think the work we do is…

— Charles Murray

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

— George McGovern

The world is corrupt from the white house to the crack house and everything in between.

— Ebenezer C Penha

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race…

— Martha Gellhorn

If you say no to cruel factory farm practices, only then will the government say yes to change.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

Conservative Republicans are back. We're in the fight for fiscal discipline and limited government, and we are on the side of the…

— Mike Pence

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

— Will Rogers

Strengthening the system and spirit of cooperative federalism, my government is taking the states along to achieve national goals.

— Ram Nath Kovind

I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away…

— Michael Kirby

[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater…

— Ed Koch

Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections.

— Nicola Sturgeon

People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government.

— Bob McDonnell

There is, in fact, no law or government at all [in Italy]; and it is wonderful how well things go on without…

— Lord Byron

It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.

— William Bennett

Governments are best classified by considering who are the "somebodies" they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy.

— Alfred North Whitehead