Government Quotes · Page 225

I think today you can move ahead working with global companies more than with national governments.

— Shimon Peres

The Congress is dividing the country on the lines of caste and regions. We need a stable government to put the country…

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

— John Hospers

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Global warming. I think we really need a government that tells us what to do. It's chronic. I was in New York…

— Alice Eve

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

— Richard Holbrooke

Keep government out of the money of the people, schools of the people, and will of the people.

— Ted Cruz

“Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realise that our people have yet to learn…

— B.R. Ambedkar

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes…

— Lord Acton

You have to be careful about what you do, about what you say, and that is more dangerous than what was happening…

— Nat Hentoff

It is the government's strong desire to empower this fabric, this social fabric of our society where faith-based programs large and small…

— George W. Bush

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere…

— Nassau William Senior

Ethical globalization is possible if only we can hold governments and business accountable for respecting human rights, not just in the traditional…

— Mary Robinson

The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office [and] mailed to…

— Richard M Nixon

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only…

— Nawal El Saadawi

To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders…

— John Adams

Inspired men have been raised up, who have given us our form of government, and the code of laws by which we…

— Anthony W. Ivins

There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after…

— Henry Hazlitt

Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is…

— Cato the Younger

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how…

— Oscar Wilde

After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

The struggle hasn't ended. It's only just begun in our view. In the sense that if all goes well during the elections…

— Robert Mugabe

When I was on the London assembly it was quite common for government ministers to refuse to appear.

— James Cleverly

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals…

— Plato

I am honored to represent New York's 11th Congressional District in Congress, an institution founded on the Greek ideals of representative government.

— Nicole Malliotakis

Refusal to engage with the Russian government is not a viable long-term foreign policy option for the U.K.

— Crispin Blunt

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

— Edward Abbey

I do not intend to join the NDA. I just want the country to get a stable government.

— Raj Thackeray

Spend a while listening to people in your district to make sure you understand how they are served well in government and…

— Bill Foster

There was an old Woman who lived in a shoe She had so many children Her government subsidy check came to $4,892.

— Sam Levenson

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative…

— Alan Green

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

— Roger Wicker

A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.

— Iqbal Quadir

A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.

— Oliver Ellsworth

Kanye West hasn't really done anything worthwhile-- except maybe musically, I haven't heard him. But he hasn't overthrown the government.

— Ian Svenonius

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a…

— Aristotle

What the federal government can do, especially as it relates to urban, inner-city America, is invest resources that would help create jobs.

— Danny K. Davis

It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to…

— Max Lucado