Government Quotes · Page 163

The most difficult challenge that Governments have faced since the dinosaurs roamed the earth.

— David Chaytor

“Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is our unfinished task to make sure that this government works on behalf of the many, and not just the few.

— Barack Obama

We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but…

— John Ashcroft

Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

— Archibald Cox

“The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think…

— Amit Kalantri

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

— Anonymous

I spent six weeks in England, and the drugstores out there are different. I'm like, Okay, your government has money.

— Michelle Buteau

Our nation was founded on the principle that our government should be of the people, by the people, and for the people…

— Tulsi Gabbard

Any politician who respects China's government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about…

— Ai Weiwei

There is fear of impoverishment as a narrowly based ideological government, infused with medieval religious rectitude, lays waste to the Egyptian economy,…

— Crispin Blunt

The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human…

— James Madison

The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of…

— Nan Hayworth

To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation…

— Thurgood Marshall

It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of…

— Nicholas Stern

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true…

— Frank Herbert

To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them…

— Jerome Frank

No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political…

— Lysander Spooner

Called to the throne of my fathers, I have taken over the government, looking to the King of all kings, and have…

— Wilhelm II

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by…

— Thomas Jefferson

A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of…

— Woodrow Wilson

It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights…

— David Rockefeller

As currently written, the laws require certain manufacturers and users of such chemicals to report any and all environmental releases-either accidental or…

— Sandra Steingraber

If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world.

— Raphael Lemkin

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

— Buffalo Bill

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or…

— Rick Santelli

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

— Noam Chomsky

“Corporate governments have a long and established history of not prosecuting government officials that have been involved in blatant frauds.”

— Steven Magee

Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

The aim of my government is to set up an industrial park at Dhamra. It will bring more investments to the state.

— Naveen Patnaik

“We live in a society that is governed by corrupt corporate controlled scumbags.”

— Steven Magee

I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.

— Russell B. Long

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

— Luke Scott

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that…

— Howard Zinn

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

— George Pataki

An awareness of the need for some kind of global government is gaining ground, one in which all members of the world…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.

— James Cook

Surely in a country that works for everyone ensuring that everyone has access to an excellent education should be the first priority…

— Angela Rayner