Government Quotes · Page 205

I understand why foreign government contributions to the Clinton Foundation could raise ethical issues should Hillary run for president.

— Bob Beckel

The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.

— Ludwig von Mises

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

— Karl Popper

No government in any country can run on static definitions of economic thinking.

— Amit Shah

The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.

— Charles Murray

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull…

— Sally Phillips

We need to show why the government should be funding science and how that funding delivers.

— Mark Walport

Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.

— Anonymous

If you owe the bank $10,000 you have a problem. If you owe the bank $10,000,000 they have a problem. After all…

— Ronald Reagan

“I find the blatant cover-up regarding the extensive biological toxicity of wireless radiation to the masses by the corporate government to be…

— Steven Magee

Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government,…

— Rick Mercer

First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a…

— Bobby Jindal

We have an expression in New York City government - "In God we trust, but for everyone else, bring data." It's so…

— Michael Bloomberg

An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to…

— Nelson Mandela

In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

The more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own…

— Barack Obama

I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers...…

— Ronald Reagan

To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly…

— Michael Parenti

It's tax day and while many Americans are filing their taxes with a groan, taxpayers in the Badger State have reason to…

— Marco Rubio

What about the golf courses?What about the huge foreign bank loans?What about the condos and the apartments that they sell, the promoting…

— Norman L. Eisen

What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what…

— Rebecca Solnit

The states have authority to interpret the Constitution, enforce it, and protect the people from violations of it by the federal government…

— Alexander Hamilton

The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities,…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free…

— Richard Henry Lee

Aligning private development with community needs for equity and resiliency is one of the most powerful roles of city government.

— Michelle Wu

It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that…

— J. B. Pritzker

There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of…

— Alexander Hamilton

The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.

— Tim Pawlenty

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.

— Doug Larson

The NYPD is just a branch of corruption connected to a giant, corrupt tree called the United States government.

— Prodigy

The SCMP, in short, reveals the renewed spirit of Hong Kong driven by my government - connect and excel - and in…

— Carrie Lam

'Reform' is pillage and plunder if you're against it, and it's good government if you're for it.

— Pete Laney

I don't see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they're very well-to-do.

— Brigitte Bardot

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

— George Will

It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt.

— Wole Soyinka

When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on [gay] marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

— Rand Paul

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

— Johann Lamont

Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs.

— Robert Quillen

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our country is slowly but surely moving - and I've seen it over and over again in many instances in government -…

— Elijah Cummings