Government Quotes · Page 199

We really don’t get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.

— Jeffrey Tucker

As we all know, health care is not getting any cheaper since government expanded its reach into the industry.

— Nancy Mace

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and…

— Bob Riley

Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all.

— John Dryden

You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you…

— Jimmy Carter

A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.

— Gordon R. Dickson

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me…

— Ann Richards

Cynicism lost and hope won. For the first time, the government of Quebec will be led by a woman.

— Pauline Marois

Our going to Washington [The Million Man March] was not to petition government, but to petition our God and Creator, that we…

— Louis Farrakhan

I paid every effort to seek deregulation throughout FEDEX's start-up and expansion periods, because the biggest impediment to our growth was the…

— Frederick W. Smith

Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will…

— Orson Scott Card

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government…

— John Adams

The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant…

— Ronald Reagan

Deficit financing proper is rather the process whereby a Government spends more money that it withdraws from the economy by taxation, borrowing,…

— John James Cowperthwaite

If taxpayers' money goes into paying salaries and bearing expenses of Air India and other entities that require funding every year, then…

— Anurag Thakur

Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that…

— John Stossel

I would like to suggest to you that the extent to which government in America has departed from the original design of…

— Leonard Read

READILY and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all . . . to provide for those who, in the…

— Franklin Pierce

There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in…

— Robert Eastaway

The character of the tribunes was, in every respect, different from that of the consuls. The appearance of the former was modest…

— Edward Gibbon

Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between…

— Peter Costello

I don't envy Netanyahu's situation, because I think he is in hot water. Obviously, this man has a totally different sense of…

— Amos Oz

When we first started Fear factory, we asked ourselves what Fear Factory means, it was a cool name, but what did it…

— Dino Cazares

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

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

— Henry David Thoreau

I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

— Abraham Lincoln

My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging…

— Patrick Henry

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as…

— Maynard James Keenan

“It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.”

— Eric Robert Morse

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think…

— Edmund Burke

France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

— Honore de Balzac

If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty.

— Kevin Hassett

The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government…

— John T. Flynn

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right…

— Andrew Jackson

Any strategy to promote democracy and human rights must have the fight against corruption at its heart.

— Tom Malinowski

Our collaboration in building innovative technologies will support the Make in India vision of the Indian government.

— John L. Flannery

When government misleads the country about a terrorist attack, that erodes trust.

— Paul Ryan

Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

“No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.”

— Lysander Spooner