Government Quotes · Page 136

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run…

— Michael Novak

The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

— Felix Frankfurter

Any government which fears freedom of speech and expression, should fear the internet more.

— Robert Black

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

— Anonymous

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

— Tom Robbins

Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.

— Roy Hattersley

The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives.

— Craig Benson

These economic, social, cultural and educational causes of opportunity inequality are complex. And they will not be solved by continuing with the…

— Marco Rubio

God just turns on all the beauty He can possibly create, and that final Heaven on Earth, the eternal one of the…

— David Berg

The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy…

— John Doolittle

If we set the precedent that a government can use their royal prerogative to take away people's human rights, that is taking…

— Gina Miller

The Odisha government is supporting the sports circuit very well. Athletes are getting jobs in the government sector and they are providing…

— Dutee Chand

Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and…

— James Otis

We need to have mentoring programs energized by government, paid for by government, but who exist not because of government. Teen Challenge…

— George W. Bush

I've got enough money in my life to retire now and do nothing. But I've got a duty and obligation to see…

— Clive Palmer

One third of the $15 trillion of mortgages in existence in 2008 are owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie…

— Walter E. Williams

The government of the United States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through…

— Hugo Chavez

This spirit [of Party], unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It…

— George Washington

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how…

— Jacob Bronowski

The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Those negatively affected by globalization, those who are losing their jobs, and losing their skills, people out of training, must be looked…

— Christine Lagarde

We now have political chaos. We've got parties in Ireland saying they want to merge with Northern Ireland. You've got parties in…

— Tim Harford

Audiences will see what they want to see. Some will come out, hopefully enjoying two hours of action. Some people will find…

— Colin Farrell

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

— Walter Bagehot

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as…

— Phil Zimmermann

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

— Tommy Douglas

A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

— Jesse Ventura

People are afraid to own their own homes. People are afraid their own government will catch them fixing their houses.

— Dave Barry

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our…

— William J. Clinton

After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.

— Howard Coble

Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.

— Dennis E Adonis

I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up.

— Jeri Ryan

A back door is a nonstarter. It means we are all not safe... I don't support a back door for any government,…

— Tim Cook

Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care

— Gordon Brown

As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.

— Edward Snowden

The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.

— Benjamin Carson

Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands.

— Ilana Mercer

You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients.

— Jill Stein