Government Quotes · Page 171

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.

— Sheldon Richman

The government has to be flexible in Air India sale price, structure, and employee management plan.

— Mohnish Pabrai

Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.

— Alberto Juantorena

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being…

— Thomas Jefferson

I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the…

— Warren Ellis

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

— Stephen Harper

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

— John Adams

I think it's natural for anyone that participates in a public debate to advocate for the most extreme version that they can,…

— Julius Genachowski

American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American…

— Tony Judt

The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the…

— Winston Churchill

It was one of the great mass achievements of American civilization, and we did it because we thought if you were going…

— Robert Hass

People who have been in and around government and politics for their entire lives may no longer be able to see the…

— Carly Fiorina

It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance…

— Alan Dershowitz

We already have two branches of federal government that factor political considerations into their decision-making, and our Founding Fathers determined long ago…

— Thom Tillis

In the government, we have a very important responsibility to protect the rights of our pastors and religious leaders. They have the…

— Steve Daines

Since taking office, I've made it clear that the United States was prepared to begin a new chapter of engagement with the…

— Barack Obama

Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then…

— Malcolm X

If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must…

— Richard M. Nixon

“If the clicker became useless in grown men's hands, no games to watch, no highlights shown, ESPN left with only test patterns…

— Leigh Montville

The Declaration of Independence...is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to 'deny or disparage' other…

— Laura Schlessinger

Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon…

— Louis Thomas McFadden

There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less…

— Slavoj Žižek

“It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual…

— Joseph Lewis

I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite…

— Emma Goldman

I am a very strong supporter of our government's view that it is important to engage with all countries around the world…

— Chrystia Freeland

Local government is a gamble that can have disastrous consequences when it fails.

— Joy Reid

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

— Ted Nugent

I was in Australia for many years. And the system there is a two-party system and the government changes from time to…

— Frank Lowy

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.

— Pat Robertson

The Iranian government must respect the rights of all its minorities, release the seven leaders, and emancipate the Baha'i community.

— Omid Djalili

I'm just am amazed that he seems to think the Iraqi government and our allies and everybody else launched the attack on…

— Hillary Clinton

Libertarians believe that the government should stay out of private lives on issues that don't have a bearing on society as a…

— Norah Vincent

RSS and BJP are not only tarnishing the government but also insulting people of Kerala.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions.

— Dick Armey

No government can give a selective advantage to a specific company, because that would make competition unfair.

— Margrethe Vestager

Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.

— James Cook

I don't trust the church or the government, and anything the church or the government tells me I assume to be a…

— Killer Mike

[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick