Government Quotes · Page 161

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Bottom line: government shouldn't be a bottleneck for entrepreneurs looking to design a better mousetrap.

— Ajit Pai

We are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies, receive advice and criticism.

— Yemi Osinbajo

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

— William Weld

The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.

— George Allen

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all…

— Martha Gellhorn

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no…

— Anonymous

The majority of ground in the U.S. is owned by the federal government, and right now, very little of it is accessible…

— Sam Graves

Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors…

— Howard Zinn

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S.…

— Michael Moore

However, the religious extremists, especially the pro-Taliban organizations, they mobilized and instigated the Islamists to come on the streets and put pressure…

— Shahbaz Bhatti

In Cuba, His Holiness [Pope Francis] won't find a government that protects its people and their God-given rights. Instead, he will find…

— Marco Rubio

No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or…

— Charles Grandison Finney

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested…

— Andrew Jackson

For too long, government officials have tinkered with Mexico's economic structure through piecemeal reforms that seek to ensure political stability but that…

— Denise Dresser

Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms…

— Amartya Sen

Americans whisper the word Alzheimer's because their government whispers the word Alzheimer's. And although a whisper is better than the silence that…

— Seth Rogen

What I believe is that the United States is going to be playing on a level playing field in dealing with Israel…

— Bernie Sanders

[The stimulus bill funds] a bureaucratic structure for the government to begin rationing the health care of the American people. They can…

— Peter Ferrara

“The beautiful stranger cuddled Cindy, and she rocked the chair slightly as she spoke softly to her. “Suicide is a problem, not…

— Shafter Bailey

The commitment to international agreements is embodied, it's found in the U.S. Constitution. Article Six of the U.S. Constitution provides that treaties…

— John Burroughs

One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal…

— Dan Barker

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed…

— Benjamin Disraeli

The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.

— Irwin Redlener

It's government's role to inform us of risks and let us use personal responsibility to evaluate that risk ourselves.

— Lauren Boebert

I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible.

— Maurice Strong

I think when you've been exposed to the Creator of the universe, then the federal government doesn't seem very powerful.

— Steve Largent

A government subsidized economic recovery, is not an economic recovery - it's an entitlement state.

— Tommy Tuberville

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

— Charley Reese

It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in Government.

— Michael Gove

I don't know what our government does except put us into debt and blow up other countries.

— Madonna Ciccone

“A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.”

— Thomas Paine

People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in…

— Eric Cantor

I'm a parent, and I regulate what my kids listen to. I don't need the government to be the parent. If I'm…

— Howard Stern

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

— Woodrow Wilson

What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.

— Lisa Murkowski

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

— Vladimir Lenin

Indeed, it is quite sad to see the United States becoming the main exporter of arms. It is quite sad to look…

— Óscar Arias