Government Quotes · Page 246

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

— Clinton Rossiter

There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and…

— Allen West

Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.

— Abdolkarim Soroush

Trust in our economic system and the genius and hard work of our citizens beyond the mandate and control of government.

— Rick Tumlinson

So bitcoin gives us an opportunity to reclaim the power of the people to say yes or no to what the government…

— Stefan Molyneux

I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

— Joseph Heller

When I'll... form a government, I don't intend to cooperate with those who go against the State of Israel.

— Benny Gantz

Healing of the world's woes will not come through this or that social or political theory; not through violent changes in government,…

— Arthur James Moore

You say we [reporters] are distracting...from the business of government. Well, I hope so. Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting…

— P J OâRourke

The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made…

— John Marshall

The corruption at higher levels flourishes and sustains corruption all around. Some people try to justify corruption on the ground of its…

— K S Venkataraman

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and…

— Lord Acton

I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15…

— John Stossel

The key to undoing the Taliban is to sow dissension within its ranks by offering carrots - bribes and positions in a…

— John Mearsheimer

Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government…

— William Julius Wilson

Though the two issues may seem utterly unrelated, they do have this in common - both health care and higher education are…

— Mona Charen

The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is…

— Ludwig von Mises

It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions…

— John Stuart Mill

The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the…

— Benjamin Rush

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our government is committed to investing in world-class research networks such as GlycoNet, which will develop new drugs and vaccines to fight…

— Rona Ambrose

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

— James Madison

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

— Anonymous

“I was truly shocked at what I found when I researched why I could not get my government disability payments.”

— Steven Magee

Whatever the needs of the public are, the government responds to those needs by getting larger.

— Dave Barry

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

— Ben Jonson

I don’t believe in involving the government in enforcing or encouraging the lifestyle of gays and homosexuals.

— Bill McCollum

Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send…

— Timothy Murphy

The ONLY thing that seems to band all nations together, is that their governments are universally bad.

— Frank Zappa

Government is at its best when you've got servant leaders that are acting for the good of the public.

— Doug Burgum

Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of…

— Bob Schieffer

The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.

— Bruce Rauner

Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.

— Mike Quigley

American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.

— Nikki Haley

The danger with Bill C-11 is that it gives the government the ability to use technology as a means of social control.

— Leslyn Lewis

If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit.

— Tim Scott

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

— Ralph Steadman