Government Quotes · Page 177

Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.

— Kin Hubbard

The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us…

— Jenny Shipley

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

— Thaddeus Stevens

Government employees make a good amount of money - income levels are very high in Washington, D.C. compared to other markets, so…

— Jon Taffer

Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Strengthening the system and spirit of cooperative federalism, my government is taking the states along to achieve national goals.

— Ram Nath Kovind

[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater…

— Ed Koch

I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away…

— Michael Kirby

A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance…

— Thomas Jefferson

To know we are being spied on by our own government, and to have someone else's government collaborating on that, to know…

— Sara Harrison

Aggregate aid is to the Ethiopian economy what Obama's fiscal stimulus was to the American economy: minus these injections, both economies would…

— Eskinder Nega

Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the…

— Dave Kopel

If a debt crisis results from government profligacy and mismanagement, rather than from a market failure, it is true that the central…

— Gita Gopinath

The Liberal Party has dealt with the spill motion and now this matter is behind us, we think that when you elect…

— Tony Abbott

I'm not necessarily opposed to greater American involvement. But if that's the way the Mexican government wants to go, it needs to…

— Denise Dresser

I realize the voters elected President Obama in 2012, but they also, in 2014, elected enough Republican senators to gain a majority…

— Ron Johnson

Under the Obama regime, the president and his allies are intentional in pursuing these conflicts from the perspective that you must sacrifice…

— Bobby Jindal

After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington…

— Michele Bachmann

I'm confident because of the - what we [USA government] call the strategic agreement we're now working on with them, we will…

— Joe Biden

One of the greatest things I've ever seen happen was the morning I opened the newspaper and it said that some very…

— Johnny Depp

Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to…

— Vladimir Lenin

There will never be peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of…

— Pat Robertson

We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for…

— Josh Mandel

In Quebec, in spite of police violence and threats, thousands of students demonstrated for months against a former right-wing government that wanted…

— Henry Giroux

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

— Will Rogers

Conservative Republicans are back. We're in the fight for fiscal discipline and limited government, and we are on the side of the…

— Mike Pence

Governments are best classified by considering who are the "somebodies" they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy.

— Alfred North Whitehead

It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.

— William Bennett

There is, in fact, no law or government at all [in Italy]; and it is wonderful how well things go on without…

— Lord Byron

People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government.

— Bob McDonnell

People are voluntarily giving money to A.E.I. - there is no government money - because they think the work we do is…

— Charles Murray

It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.

— James Cook

We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women

— Sima Samar

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.

— Keith O'Brien

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

— Lee J. Cobb

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

— Rush Limbaugh

If you say no to cruel factory farm practices, only then will the government say yes to change.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race…

— Martha Gellhorn

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The world is corrupt from the white house to the crack house and everything in between.

— Ebenezer C Penha