Government Quotes · Page 217

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

— William Godwin

corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.

— Arianna Huffington

True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.

— Robert Higgs

I first learned the power of a Labour government to transform lives growing up in my hometown of Stockport.

— Angela Rayner

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education.…

— Charles Barkley

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

— Carly Fiorina

The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for…

— Ma Jian

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have…

— Henry Hazlitt

With a small presence of U.S. special forces on the ground in Colombia and in other regional neighbors, we advised government forces…

— Michael Waltz

I am very worried about this concentration of power, and it's not only because of Erdogan. We have the ballot box, but…

— Elif Safak

People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. I've never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

My dad was ex-military, so I was raised to always know about current events, particularly what was going on with the military…

— Harris Faulkner

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of…

— Peter Benenson

I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13…

— Anonymous

I came out very strongly that we want a border, and the Mexican government probably convinced him that Donald Trump was saying…

— Donald Trump

“The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they…

— G.K. Chesterton

We have a media that goes along with the government by parroting phrases intended to provoke a certain emotional response - for…

— Edward Snowden

The government also has to get the public rules right. That means putting a price on carbon, so the cleaner forms of…

— Van Jones

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs…

— Clarence Thomas

We may as well face the fact, and face it squarely, that we are too much governed. The agencies of government have…

— Roland H. Hartley

Suppose hypothetically that one out of every 200 people or so is a jerk. In today's world these jerks will discover that…

— Michael Strong

I'm trying to fight the terrorism that's actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is…

— Lupe Fiasco

State universities in Illinois are a microcosm of our state government - broken with work rules and administrative bureaucracy.

— Bruce Rauner

You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.

— Anonymous

The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end.

— Richard Allen Epstein

Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.

— Russell B. Long

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

— Carl Bernstein

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

— Ludwig von Mises

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

— Milton Friedman

There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.

— Will Rogers

Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.

— Jim Goad

Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state…

— Bruce Rauner

The drive . . . is to create a one world government ... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am…

— Larry McDonald

The amount of time required to complete a government project is precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it.

— Anonymous

Particularly as a supposed 'conservative,' Trump ought to know something about the relationship between the federal government and the states.

— George T. Conway III

I do not think it's good public policy to put 300,000 more Mississippians on government health care.

— Tate Reeves

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was…

— Joseph Stalin