Government Quotes · Page 24

It's our duty as leaders in Washington to keep the government running.

— Austin Scott

The more freedoms Americans lose, the more dangerous government becomes.

— James Bovard

That putt had more breaks than a government job.

— Brian Weiss

I think it is wrong to balance the budget on the backs of local government.

— Nina Turner

I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning...

— Ari Fleischer

Peace is a national issue, not only government's responsibility.

— Ashraf Ghani

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

— Edith Sitwell

I did not come to Washington to be loved, and I have not been disappointed.

— Phil Gramm

I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security…

— Phil Crane

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

— Woodrow Wilson

Businesses should be focused on business, and social responsibility should be government responsibility.

— Terry Gou

We [Federal Government] have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.

— Henry Morgenthau, Jr

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers…

— Roger Mudd

People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.

— John Kasich

The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

— Ron Paul

“It is clear that the protective functions of workplace health and safety have transferred to the workers through the process of corporate…

— Steven Magee

At least Germany and France have recently criticized that the Ukrainian central government has limited certain parts of the autonomy regulations to…

— Vladimir Putin

Your most bitter enemies are the values imposed on you without your choice. Those idols have taken away your freedom from you;…

— Ilkin Santak

How did we make the transition from using wood to using coal, from using coal to using oil, from using oil to…

— Milton Friedman

Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution…

— Patrick McHenry

It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too…

— James Madison

If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there…

— John Cornyn

We have never believed that any potential future benefits from fracking make it acceptable for the government to bulldoze over the concerns…

— Barry Gardiner

The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to…

— Harry Browne

The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions… We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping…

— Barry Goldwater

“I reached down and picked up a baseball bat at my feet and I flung it as hard as it could. It…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

Thank God that at this hour I am dangerous to the war profiteers of this country who rob the people on the…

— Kate Richards O'Hare

Government has laid its hand on health, housing, farming, industry, commerce, education, and to an ever-increasing degree interferes with the people's right…

— Ronald Reagan

As I came through medical school, it was very exciting because physicians were reaching out to each other, between the U.S. and…

— Jill Stein

Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial,…

— Sufjan Stevens

If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid…

— Margaret Thatcher

Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.

— Lawrence Kudlow

No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

— Camille Paglia

It's the role of a government to defend its soldiers and its citizens.

— Ehud Barak

My job was to bring down the government, and I did that.

— Subramanian Swamy

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

— Calvin Coolidge

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

— Thomas Jefferson

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

— Anonymous