Government Quotes · Page 137

With Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you?

— Peter Hambleton

So let me get this straight. Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this…

— Chuck Woolery

Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.

— Bob Barr

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

— Harold Washington

“All children, legal citizens or not, should have free access to education and health services. Never punish children for the decisions made…

— Mitta Xinindlu

I think all of our ministers are relatively inexperienced. I'm relatively inexperienced. We're a six-month-old government.

— Rachel Notley

Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.

— Noam Chomsky

You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.

— Chuck Schumer

The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence…

— Anonymous

Almost half of the Turkish population believes it is not legitimate to criticize the government. Interestingly, this correlates with the number of…

— Elif Safak

The word Amendment itself is an encouraging thing, isn't it? Because an amendment, it tells of a system of government that allows…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Are the entire people equal before the god? I do not know. But all gods are equal before the human being, especially…

— Ilkin Santak

It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a…

— Michael K. Powell

...because there are no local or State boundaries to the problems of our environment, the Federal Government must play an active, positive…

— Richard M. Nixon

The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Democrats didn't just lose the 2016 presidential election, they lost seats across the country at every level of government under Obama's tenure…

— Katie Pavlich

If bankers can push the loans and make more profits for the bank, they get paid higher bonuses. They often also get…

— Michael Hudson

For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious.…

— Marilyn French

Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans…

— Howard Warren Buffett

it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They…

— Frances Trollope

Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies…

— Howard Zinn

Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a…

— Ayn Rand

Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside…

— Ian Kershaw

We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more…

— Calvin Coolidge

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I dont know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate…

— Ehud Olmert

“Government scientists are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.”

— Steven Magee

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

— Norman Cousins

Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man.

— Robert Prechter

The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.

— Judd Gregg

People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't trust the media.

— Donna Brazile

Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.

— Tony Snow

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you…

— Ellen Glasgow

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

— Thomas Jefferson

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the…

— George Grenville

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

— Thomas Jefferson

If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for…

— James Bovard

. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

— Frank Zappa