Government Quotes · Page 239

“When we imagine an alien planet, we rarely imagine it to be divided into countries—because that would be, you know, backward.”

— Neel Burton

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

— Michael Badnarik

Bitcoin is not a currency for a government; it is a global currency for the people.

— Wences Casares

I retired in 2016 as a Lieutenant Commander and immediately went to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

— Dan Crenshaw

The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments.

— Nicola Sturgeon

No government prospers by saying, 'I don't need to do anything. Just by being there, we have made the country thrive.'

— Lee Hsien Loong

We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.

— Penn Jillette

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

There is little doubt that our society is changing rapidly, but one thing will never change as long as we remain a…

— Max Boot

Has the center of gravity shifted such that all governments have greater powers and fewer restrictions than they ever had, and are…

— Edward Snowden

The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this…

— Thomas Jefferson

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone…

— George Osborne

You don't need to justify your rights as a citizen - that inverts the model of responsibility. The government must justify its…

— Edward Snowden

It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not…

— Aristotle

Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage?…

— H. L. Mencken

I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government… We…

— Woodrow Wilson

“The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out…

— Nikola Tesla

It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work. Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government…

— Colin Quinn

Unfortunately, the greater consciousness among Whites about Black equality has not carried over to the new victims of racism - Muslims and…

— Howard Zinn

Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts…

— Piper Kerman

Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy…

— John Kiriakou

I think it's interesting because the 1990s ended with the government pretty much giving up. There was a recognition that encryption was…

— Matt Blaze

Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of…

— John Locke

Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows,…

— Robert Hewison

Top-down government programs threaten to limit the freedom and opportunity that made this country great.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

— Stephen Ambrose

The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli government's responsibility.

— Avigdor Lieberman

I want to place morality, honesty and ethics at the center of my government's preoccupations, of its councilors or all the principality's…

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.

— Benjamin Franklin

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

— Malcolm X

The solution to voters potentially being misled by a judicial candidate's political speech is more speech - not government censorship.

— Amul Thapar

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

— Marco Rubio

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing…

— Andrew Jackson

I was born in Tamil Nadu. I built HCL in UP. The first computers of the world were built in UP, and…

— Shiv Nadar

“The only way crime will increase and get out of hand it is because those who are supposed to stop it are…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

— Scilla Elworthy

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one…

— Lysander Spooner

Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

— P. J. O'Rourke

We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.

— Max Lucado

If we had to kneel in order to live in peace, [ U.S. government] will have to kill us before.

— Che Guevara