Government Quotes · Page 154

Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

— John Warren Kindt

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

— Thomas Jefferson

Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.

— Bertrand Russell

We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.

— Karen Horney

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

— Jenny Shipley

Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

— William Weld

Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies.

— Van Jones

However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from developing nations where there may…

— Anonymous

In most legislatures, punctilious attention to correct usage is considered elitist. The word 'government,' for example, is normally pronounced 'gummint'; bureaucracy is…

— Molly Ivins

Of course, ISIS is a terrible organization that has to be defeated. And, of course, we need a strong military. But just…

— Hillary Clinton

As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people…

— Al Gore

I’m a human being, I’m not anyone’s mascot! And I am America’s conscience. And that’s what they don’t want to look at.…

— Russell Means

Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest…

— Leonard Read

The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Those who proposed the Constitution knew, and those who ratified the Constitution also knew that this is...a limited government tied down to…

— James Madison

The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is…

— Ludwig von Mises

The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions…

— John Stuart Mill

It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to…

— Thomas Jefferson

This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would…

— Strom Thurmond

Our government is committed to investing in world-class research networks such as GlycoNet, which will develop new drugs and vaccines to fight…

— Rona Ambrose

The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the…

— Benjamin Rush

For me, governing starts with people. It doesn't start with bureaucracy. It doesn't start with policy. It starts with people and what…

— Betsy Hodges

Israel is a start-up nation, and I think it can be done in other places. I will do it outside the government.…

— Shimon Peres

People of our State know the commitment and sincerity with which my Government deals with issues concerning the State, including Left wing…

— Naveen Patnaik

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

— Ronald Reagan

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We know the costs of failure. There is now no excuse for government - at any level - not to invest in…

— Eric Adams

There's one job of government and that's to protect its citizens and protect those in law enforcement.

— Dagen McDowell

You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.

— Gary Webb

As the excited passions of hostile people are of themselves a powerful enemy, both the general and his government should use their…

— Antoine-Henri Jomini

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

— Rick Perry

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

— George McGovern

We [the U.S.] think nothing... of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.

— Ralph Peters

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

India knows that the subject of Land is not with the Central Government and the Centre does not require lands. All rights…

— Narendra Modi

Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle…

— Martin Cruz Smith

Look at Mexico. We need to make that government better and end the corruption. If people have a better life in their…

— Tony Garza