Government Quotes · Page 173

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

— George Will

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

— Samantha Power

We see this plan as a thinly-disguised plan to give the banking sector and government access to gold for the nations benefit.

— Julian Phillips

Corporate and government surveillance aren't separate; they're an alliance of interests.

— Bruce Schneier

I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in…

— Ibrahim Hooper

Any recognition by the government for your performance and achievements always boosts the confidence of an athlete.

— Dutee Chand

The federal government can't remodel every firehouse and buy every new policeradio in the name of Homeland Security.

— Bob Inglis

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am proud to represent the first explicitly feminist government in the world, and one that has been at the forefront of…

— Isabella Lovin

I know the President [Barack Obama]. I like him and respect him. That does not mean I agree with all of our…

— Jamie Dimon

Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I…

— Tommy Rettig

Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone's anything.…

— Henry Rollins

During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less…

— Al Franken

My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as…

— Camille Paglia

As elected officials, we were sent to the halls of government by our neighbors to do their work - and much work…

— Amy Klobuchar

We're responsible for the fortunes of the company but this is a bone-dry situation in terms of access to credit. Nobody can…

— Ratan Tata

This government to government relationship is the result of sovereign and independent tribal governments being incorporated into the fabric of our Nation,…

— George H. W. Bush

President Trump and his administration have made an intensive effort to roll back President Obama's big-government regulations, the worst of which was…

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of…

— Douglass North

And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war…

— Richard M. Nixon

I am delighted to be involved in the digital divide campaign to ensure that every school is made aware of what steps…

— Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to…

— Charles S. Maier

If a dog is biting a black man, the black man should kill the dog, whether the dog is a police dog…

— Malcolm X

The reality is that the Republican Party may have unified government but is not unified enough on many major signature policy areas.

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

— James Russell Lowell

The great American work ethic has not been lost, but it has been eroded by years of dumb government policies that Mr.…

— Stephen Moore

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

— Mark Twain

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

— Don Nickles

Why is the government of India uncomfortable with Jamaat-e-Islami? It is an organisation that has worked tirelessly for Kashmiris.

— Mehbooba Mufti

The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country…

— Anonymous

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the…

— James Monroe

It must never be unpatriotic to support your country against your government. It must always be unpatriotic to support your government against…

— Steven T. Byington

I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations -…

— Jack Abramoff

The only way government bureaucrats know of keeping prosperity going is to inflate some more - to increase the deficit or to…

— Henry Hazlitt

Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

— Edward Snowden

The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.

— Mario Cuomo

“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.”

— Ludwig von Mises