Government Quotes · Page 245

The only things that are immortal in this world are government programs and cancer cells in petri dishes.

— Jim Babka

We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process…

— Kim Campbell

The only leader America should ever have is someone who understands that the people are the government.

— Eric Metaxas

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers,

— Oliver Stone

I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.

— Gary Johnson

No, a euro referendum will not be part of a government programme if we get the chance to form one,

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious…

— Franklin Pierce

It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

Trusting the government to monitor your calls without listening. It's kind of like trusting Chris Christie to pick up the McDonald's and…

— Bill Maher

Not once in my life has the Tory Party come anywhere close to winning an election in Scotland, and yet, for more…

— Nicola Sturgeon

“The general public has failed to realize that the USA government has built a High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in…

— Steven Magee

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine…

— Nhat Hanh

The left hates the Constitution. They hate the restrictions of the Constitution on government. so when you come out and you're for…

— Chuck Woolery

Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The…

— Calvin Coolidge

When I started in government, I said that children who come here should take German classes before they start regular classes so…

— Sebastian Kurz

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side,…

— Michael Parenti

That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege…

— Spencer W. Kimball

So far as the government is concerned, there is ­only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. The unity and…

— Narendra Modi

We have a democracy of elections to elections. After winning an election, the parties become brazen and arrogant. They would do all…

— Arvind Kejriwal

When Maryam Babangida and Mariam Abacha built the Women Centre and the National Hospital they did not carry the buildings when they…

— Patience Jonathan

Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and…

— M.I.A

Today, we are tabling a motion seeking the support of the House for the government's decision to renew our military mission against…

— Stephen Harper

My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government,…

— George Washington

Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society.

— Harry Browne

If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.

— Mark Dayton

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

— Woodrow Wilson

The U.S. government places considerable trust in those given access to classified information, and we are committed to prosecuting those who abuse…

— Dana Boente

When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.

— Karl Hess

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

— Maggie Gallagher

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

— Joseph Conrad

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

— Ralph Hall

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

— Frantz Fanon

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

— Michael Hastings

Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists - and every government that supports them.

— George W. Bush

Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed.

— Cynthia Dill

It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.

— James Jesus Angleton

I mean, I've spent time in local - in state government. I was a representative. I spent time in city government.

— Marty Walsh