Government Quotes · Page 229

What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.

— Rick Scott

It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.

— William H. Seward

Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse.

— James Cook

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and…

— Abraham Lincoln

If there is one currency that helped Wikileaks take on the might of the U.S. Government, it was Bitcoins.

— Ravi Subramanian

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

— Thomas Jefferson

More and more Congressmen now stay in Washington all year-round because they can't stay at home under the laws they've passed.

— Sam Levenson

Government influences your life every day. If there's a war, they're not drafting guys my age.

— Mike Quigley

If we want the nation to move ahead, then we'll have to leave behind the thinking that Government will do everything...we all…

— Narendra Modi

One of the extraordinary features of the Blair government has been its slavish support for the central tenets of Bush's foreign policy…

— Martin Jacques

There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake…

— George Osborne

It's much more powerful to say I'm working to reduce spending, deal with our nation's deficit, push back on the federal government,…

— Lisa Murkowski

Ted Cruz, of course, was furious that the big storm back east shut down the government. He said, 'That my job!' But…

— Bill Maher

The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects…

— Henry David Thoreau

Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that…

— Simon Hoggart

The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities…

— Henry A. Kissinger

[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the…

— Joseph Story

Part of the uprising of Latin America, particularly in the last 10 to 15 years, has been a reaction to [neoliberal regime],…

— Noam Chomsky

Government can only do two things: It can beat people up and kill them. Or it can threaten to do so. When…

— L. Neil Smith

With support from institutions like the United Nations as well as the donor community, governments can strengthen their national technological and scientific…

— Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

But, clearly, the prime minister has laid down some ground rules which any functioning democratic state would insist upon, having to do…

— Condoleezza Rice

National security is a really big problem for journalists, because no journalist worth his salt wants to endanger the national security, but…

— Ben Bradlee

I'm vile and perverted. I'm obsessed and deranged. I've existed for years but very little has changed. I'm the tool of the…

— Frank Zappa

Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly…

— Anonymous

I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.

— Nick Clegg

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

— Joe Biden

Under Howard, federal government support for black Australia slowly dried up. Services were slashed, native title restricted.

— Richard Flanagan

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

— Charles Koch

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

— Thomas Sowell

The youth should work on popularising central and state government schemes among people. The young generation should make social media their weapon.

— Yogi Adityanath

As never before does the keeping of our economic machine in tune depend upon wise policies in the administrative side of the…

— Herbert

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

— Alexander Pope

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

— Thomas Paine

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

— Bob Woodward

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

— Manmohan Singh

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

— Noam Chomsky

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

— C. L. R. James

The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.

— Tariq Ali

People have seen the Modi government's track record, and now they believe that if we say something, it will happen.

— Piyush Goyal

[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

— Auguste Piccard