Government Quotes · Page 159

Email says that no, it is the governments of Saudi and Qatar that have been funding ISIS.

— Julian Assange

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.

— Mario Monti

Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.

— Robert Reich

Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we…

— Bill Vaughan

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

— John Stossel

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

— Philip K. Howard

Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.

— Bruce Sterling

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

— Mitch McConnell

If you hear what people had to say about Abraham Lincoln or what they had to say about FDR, or what they…

— Barack Obama

My citizen activism is a direct outgrowth of a classical and fiscally conservative training in economics at Harvard. It is a perspective…

— Peter Navarro

Persons who wrongly managed or used the government's money will have to respond to justice in a process that is just, balanced…

— Jovenel Moise

I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum of government... that what can…

— Nick Clegg

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government…

— Gary Bauer

I have no plans to seek asylum in the U.S. or elsewhere. I have not thought about citizenship. I love my country,…

— Feyisa Lilesa

Obviously, whenever the government is getting involved with speech, it gives me a lot of pause. I have a background as a…

— Brianna Wu

Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people…

— Jeff Baxter

My supporters and family have limited resources, very limited resources; but the FBI has the unlimited resources of the most powerful government…

— Leonard Peltier

There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is…

— Hugh Nibley

The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve…

— Calvin Coolidge

[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN]…

— Martin Scorsese

And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder…

— Lysander Spooner

The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great scepticism – which foretells a coming…

— Stefan Molyneux

We know with certainty that the Obama administration has re-defined 'militants' to include any military-age males they kill regardless of whether they…

— Glenn Greenwald

I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true…

— Ted Cruz

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

— Emma Goldman

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

— Ronald Reagan

States know better than the federal government how to allocate and manage resources to address the needs of their people.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government.

— Grover Norquist

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to…

— Milton Friedman

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

— William McKinley

Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.

— Harry S. Truman

If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.

— Siraj Wahhaj

I think that I, because of student government and because of working in Baltimore, knew how to be creative with very little…

— DeRay Mckesson

Democracy is the worst kind of government, I'm sorry. Would you still call yourself a Christian if they elected a new Jesus…

— Doug Stanhope

“If we were all responsible for the misdeeds of the governments that represent us, thought Isabel, then the moral burden would be…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The idea that the United States government would have to figure out what to do about the headscarf is simply ludicrous. We…

— Diana L. Eck

I swore under oath with the government not to give the whereabouts of my location.

— George Thorogood

My constituents work hard, pay taxes and expect the government to put them, not illegal immigrants, first.

— Nicole Malliotakis

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil…

— Richard Branson

We will get an absolute majority, I don't need anybody's help, the BSP will form the government on its own.

— Mayawati