Government Quotes · Page 138

The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.

— Alex Kozinski

Through elections, the citizenry directs political decision-making. Their views are what informs campaigns and government decisions.

— Jessica Tarlov

The King had been a good friend of the government and the people of South Africa and we all mourn his passing…

— Thabo Mbeki

Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

— Al Franken

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

— James Madison

If people are going to be made worse off, the government should at least let them know. I don't think that's asking…

— Angela Rayner

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

— Benjamin Franklin

The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.

— Thomas Jefferson

What the Tea Parties are standing for is constitutional principle. It's not fundamentally about tax rates or whether to have a consumption…

— Robert P. George

“[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with "a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself…

— Jane Mayer

(Terrorists) are planning to disrupt our democratic process. It's scary I know, but we're not going to let al Qaeda tell us…

— Jon Stewart

I shall work with Congress, civil society groups and local government executives who are convinced that charter changes are needed to enable…

— Anonymous

For too long, foreign adversaries like the Chinese Communist Party have infiltrated academia to spy on the United States, steal our information,…

— John E. James

That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

People say, 'I'm for job training. We can train people to increase the likelihood that they can be self-sufficient.' Okay, that's great,…

— Steve Largent

The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience…

— Joseph Addison

Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have…

— Andrew Bacevich

All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to…

— Herman Melville

We have to find ways in which, collectively, we agree there's some things that government needs to do to help protect us,…

— Barack Obama

I think it’s time to open the books, on questions that have remained in the dark on the question of government investigations…

— John Podesta

Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution……

— Paul Craig Roberts

The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job…

— Aldo Leopold

I believe it is in the national interest that government stand side-by-side with people of faith who work to change lives for…

— George W. Bush

Harvard graduates just cannot shake the idea that they know better than everyone else what's best for us and that they're capable…

— Ann Coulter

“Western corporate governments are far more likely to damage your health or kill you prematurely than anyone from North Korea.”

— Steven Magee

Income inequality and government corruption are both unfortunate realities in the United States.

— Ana Kasparian

Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.

— Janice Rogers Brown

I think the people that we hire in government should be just as diverse as the communities we represent.

— Catherine Cortez-Masto

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

— Herbert Croly

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

— Mother Teresa

I have dealt with politicians ever since I came into the government in 1971. I have seen many prime ministers, many finance ministers.

— Manmohan Singh

Government never adapts quickly to new challenges, but our slow-footedness on cyber is unparalleled.

— Ben Sasse

ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden…

— Frederic Bastiat

Government should make tough decisions in the larger national interests, even if it upsets the people.

— Sharad Pawar

By neglecting education, the 1974 Labour government failed as surely as on the picket lines of Grunwick.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or…

— George Burns

Republicans do actually care about health care. They just don't care about government-run health care.

— Greg Gutfeld

We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Somehow the government has convinced the American people that using tear gas is perfectly harmless, despite stark evidence to the contrary.

— Abby Martin