Government Quotes · Page 228

You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.

— Salman Khurshid

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

— Russ Feingold

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

— Robert D. Kaplan

I feel that the law should ensure speedy justice to girls, be it from poor, rich or backward communities, and for this,…

— Anurag Thakur

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for…

— Henry Clay

The Modi government started several welfare schemes for poor and realised the dream of corruption-free India.

— Yogi Adityanath

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

— Walter Lippmann

What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.

— Murray Rothbard

The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet…

— Reed Hastings

Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems - the kind of problems that are inevitable…

— Star Parker

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but…

— Winifred Holtby

The Federal Reserve, the Treasury, all the regulator agencies - if there's a problem of the financial mechanism in society, the only…

— Dick Cheney

So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to…

— Michael Howard

All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke…

— Bob Marley

The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings,…

— Oliver Tambo

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand…

— George W. Bush

Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an…

— Chester Middlebrook Pierce

The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is…

— Kirkpatrick Sale

If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So…

— Stefan Molyneux

If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified…

— Charles A. Beard

With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the…

— George Will

The issue here really is not whether international trade shall be free but whether or not it makes any sense for a…

— Wendell Berry

What we would be committed to would be a representative government where all the Iraqi people decide who should lead their nation,…

— Colin Powell

With almost no time to decide, they [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the capitol from…

— William J. Clinton

My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.

— Peter MacKay

Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control. Here's Love Connection. Watch this and get fat and stupid.

— Bill Hicks

The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

— Salman Rushdie

The supply of medicines for our servicemen and women should not be dependent on the decisions of the Chinese Government.

— Abigail Spanberger

Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.

— Ani DiFranco

Educating the American people on how our government works is the first step towards securing our future liberties for the next generation.

— Madison Cawthorn

I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.

— Dorothy Day

“The philosophy of a person speaks of what dictates or governs how and what someone believes.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

— James Wolcott

If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.

— William Greider

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from…

— Ernie Fletcher

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

They want the federal government controlling the Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program.

— George W. Bush

President Obama and Hillary Clinton want government to run your health care. My dad believes that you and your doctor should decide…

— George P. Bush

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

— Emile Zola

Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people.

— Robert Green Ingersoll