Government Quotes · Page 202

We [Federal Government] have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.

— Henry Morgenthau, Jr

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers…

— Roger Mudd

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

— Henry David Thoreau

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'

— Ernie Fletcher

I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security…

— Phil Crane

Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure.

— Thomas Erskine

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones.

— Thomas Jefferson

[Giving welfare to poor people] is the equivalent of the government sending [fat people] a jumbo bag of Bugles in the mail…

— Adam Carolla

Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George -…

— William J. Clinton

In the end whatever the government might think, including the prime minister, we are all MPs, there to represent our constituencies. We…

— Lindsay Hoyle

“[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges…

— William F. Buckley Jr

Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that…

— Thomas Mallon

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how…

— Paul Ryan

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to…

— Tom Udall

Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having…

— Ibrahim Rugova

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and…

— James Madison

I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they…

— Ernest Hemingway

The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization.…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[People] have seen the credit market seize up. They're worried about money market funds, although the latest proposition from government should take…

— Warren Buffett

I was taking a lot of eyedrops three times a day and I realized I should have it checked out, that's when…

— Marisa Tomei

We have to convince people that the handouts – just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where…

— Elbert Guillory

Given the low level of competence among politicians, every American should become a libertarian. The government that governs least is certainly the…

— Charley Reese

Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also…

— Barack Obama

Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself - Climate is beyond our power to control...Earth doesn't care about governments or their…

— Robert B. Laughlin

Bitcoin is not “unregulated”. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted.

— Andreas Antonopoulos

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

— Abraham Lincoln

When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.

— Michel Temer

I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.

— Brigham Young

Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.

— Stockwell Day

It is getting harder and harder to support the government in the style to which it has become accustomed.

— Anonymous

We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do…

— Gavin Newsom

If you aren't free to protect yourself - when government puts its thumb on that freedom - then you aren't free at…

— Wayne LaPierre

For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

— Albert Einstein

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

— Jim Hightower

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

— Benazir Bhutto

Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.

— Charles A. Beard

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

Country has to stop giving electricity for free. It is like giving people cocaine.

— Farooq Abdullah

It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it…

— Tim Pawlenty