Government Quotes · Page 201

Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.

— Paul Broun

“What would you do if I told you that corporations and corporate controlled governments invest heavily in corrupted science?”

— Steven Magee

“I am not in favor of having government do anything that private citizens can do as good or better”

— William Howard Taft

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

— Thomas Hobbes

“Government should protect people and regulate corporations, not protect corporations and regulate people.”

— Anthony Sloan

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

— William Howard Taft

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument…

— Aaron Sorkin

“For so long Marianne and Albrecht and many of their friends had known Hitler was a lunatic, a leader whose lowbrow appeal…

— Jessica Shattuck

I'll be honest, there have been times when I've listened to the rhetoric in Europe where an easy equivalent somehow between the…

— Barack Obama

But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech…

— Mark Steyn

So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such…

— Harry Browne

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection,…

— Andrew Jackson

We have to unmask this man [POTUS Obama]. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God - and…

— Rafael

An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any…

— Eugene Ionesco

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights…

— David Rockefeller

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

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

— Hideaki Anno

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

— Hugh Jackman

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

— Brad Stine

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

If you are insulted for your sarcasm, that means you hit the target you killed the person you mocked on.

— Ilkin Santak

Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.

— William Godwin

"Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.

— J. William Fulbright

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

— Richard M. Nixon

It's not, 'We have a city to bid, now let's go check in with the federal government'.

— Peter Ueberroth

The values imposed on you, such as statism, motherland, religion, traditions etc - are the instruments to manipulate you. Don't idolize the…

— Ilkin Santak

Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come…

— Gavin Newsom

We must not look to government to solve our problems. Government is the problem.

— Ronald Reagan

Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.

— Vladimir Putin

Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup…

— Hugo Chavez

People of all races need to come together to control our government and run a giant comb through it so we can…

— Prodigy

The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.

— John Kasich

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

— Ron Paul

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

— Woodrow Wilson

Businesses should be focused on business, and social responsibility should be government responsibility.

— Terry Gou