Government Quotes · Page 164

I want to know why the government of this country can't take care of the people who are keeping us safe?

— Jerry Lewis

Republicans want to put Americans, not the federal government, in control of their lives and families.

— Bill Hagerty

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its…

— Frank Herbert

Can we understand - just for the record, we do need the government for a lot of big ticket items.

— Rob Lowe

Learning more about America's history and the way our government functions is exciting - and it is necessary.

— Michael Waltz

Government policies ought to encourage families to stay together and work hard to improve their lives, not punish them.

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

“Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.”

— DaShanne Stokes

All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.

— Rupert Murdoch

I have a rough time wanting to spend billions and billions and trillions of dollars to help people who won't help themselves,…

— Orrin Hatch

“One can see [...] that the so-called governing powers are cardboard characters that mask the true ruling factors of our culture. Of…

— Peter Moon

GST may well have to rise, but Singaporeans could be more likely to accept it if the government considers the pros and…

— Pritam Singh

Some of the mission groups that have been responsible for our education have not been part of the government. In fact, they…

— Nelson Mandela

I think very highly of Expo and all is going well. We've seen big problems with [corruption] scandals [at local government level],…

— Franca Sozzani

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages.…

— Stockwell Day

Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living…

— Barack Obama

There are plenty of team players in government who do whatever the leader says. There are too few difficult members, who have…

— David Brooks

A very high fraction of America's economic problems come not from our difficulties with education or globalization or competition with the Chinese…

— Charles Ferguson

The fact that you see salarymen reading manga and pornography on the trains and being unafraid, unashamed or anything, is something you…

— Hideaki Anno

I still believe that, in the long run, the aggregate of the decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free…

— John James Cowperthwaite

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants…

— Hugh Jackman

The Soviet Union and something called communism per se had not been the object of Washington's global attacks. There had never been…

— William Blum

I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud,…

— Leonard Read

Conservative concepts believe in little government - take care of yourself, and that makes men who invent things like the constitution! Liberal…

— Brad Stine

I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The nearest approach to a libertarian government was the government of the United States at the time of its inception.”

— John Hospers

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

— Ernest Istook

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and…

— George Soros

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every…

— Jeremy Bentham

I don't think any Australian will ever forget, there will never be a Carbon Tax under a government I lead.

— Nigel Scullion

There is an increasing awareness of the need for some form of global government.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?

— Harry Browne

While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

— Fabrizio Moreira

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

— Thomas Jefferson

You can't run a government solely on a business basis...Government should be human. It should have a heart.

— Herbert H. Lehman

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate…

— George Monbiot

“We are superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.”

— Ezra Taft Benson

Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans…

— Warren Buffett

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first…

— Jesse Ventura

We have to depoliticise our youth. We have to teach our youth that the word 'government' means them, it's something to feel…

— John Kani