Government Quotes · Page 142

I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all…

— David Neeleman

If a prime minister can suspend parliament to deliver a 'no deal' Brexit, what will the government try to do next with…

— Caroline Lucas

The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.

— Noam Chomsky

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

— John Stuart Mill

Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets have a great deal of information about all of us - and the government wants…

— Adam Cohen

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

— John Stuart Mill

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice…

— Alexander Hamilton

You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

— Robert Ringer

“Let us leave political questions to be decided by the powers concerned," Sir Ralph would say, "as we have adopted a form…

— George Sand

I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased…

— Anonymous

I'm sorry that government involves filling out a lot of forms. ... I'm sorry myself that we're not still on the frontier,…

— Molly Ivins

So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change,…

— Jan Brewer

"I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the…

— Barry Goldwater

Betty Sutton and I will make it a point to put state government back on the side of the middle class, not…

— Richard Cordray

Is it important that the rent of land be retained as a source of government revenue. Some persons who could make excellent…

— Franco Modigliani

As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of…

— Bobby Jindal

Maybe [the Republicans] 'll find ways around it, but the financial system of the world depends very heavily on the credibility of…

— Noam Chomsky

For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action…

— Margaret Case Harriman

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is eager to enter into close relationship with the Bank for International Settlements…The conclusion is…

— Louis Thomas McFadden

John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as…

— Frederick Douglass

The other General Welfare Clause is in the first of the authorities given to the Congress and it's not a grant, it's…

— Andrew Napolitano

When people become frightened, they look for things of real value. They will go to monetary metals, gold and silver, and they…

— Ron Paul

... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the…

— Ted Nordhaus

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

— Marco Rubio

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

— Gerald R. Ford

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

— C. S. Lewis

The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.

— Bill Frist

From day one, our administration promised to streamline government services and make interacting with the residents of Connecticut much easier.

— Ned Lamont

If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism.

— Evo Morales

The American government is doing whatever it wants to, without any representative of the American public watching what it is doing.

— John Chancellor

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It…

— Hugo Black

My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.

— Stephen Colbert

But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.

— Jane Byrne

If there is not competent Opposition, the government that comes to power won't have anyone to hold them accountable.

— Raj Thackeray

We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.

— Van Jones

Creating investment, growing the economy and creating jobs is what this government wants to do.

— Peter Gutwein

A secular worldview hostile to biblical values has overrun our culture and permeated our government.

— Franklin Graham

Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed…

— Aldous Huxley

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

— Matt Taibbi