Government Quotes · Page 261

I think it's a scary thing for a lot of people to think of the government not being involved in their lives,…

— Rush Limbaugh

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of…

— Steve Forbes

Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

— George Deukmejian

One consequence of Russia's klepto-capitalist model is the growing appeal of government jobs, with their lucrative opportunities for payoffs.

— Chrystia Freeland

Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.

— Russell Kirk

Fine Gael needs to be Fine Gael and needs to stand its ground. It should not sacrifice its politics for position in…

— Leo Varadkar

If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us?

— P. J. O'Rourke

I will be working with my colleagues in the Congress to ensure that the federal government devotes as much attention to the…

— Tom Malinowski

Paradoxically, resource-rich developing countries are often worse off than comparable countries that lack those resources. One reason for this is that large…

— Peter Singer

The government considers the aborting of innocent unborn children a natural right. Yet, there is widespread debate still about whether the death…

— Joseph Farah

One of the most important political and economic facts of this young century is that capital has been slipping the traces of…

— Chrystia Freeland

Government should be of the people, by the people, for the people. What part of that do politicians and government bureaucrats not…

— Wayne Allyn Root

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

As John Maynard Keynes taught us in the 1930s, in such situations, government is the only entity with both the motive and…

— Robert H. Frank

Certainly, when it comes to my profession as a journalist, that allows the government to trace what you're reporting, who you're talking…

— Laura Poitras

It happened: the first 9/11, it happened on September 11, 1973, in Chile. We did it. Was that interfering or hacking a…

— Noam Chomsky

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we…

— Benjamin Franklin

What will most certainly happen is that there will be very clear and full communication between the government and independents and minor…

— Tony Abbott

“I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors…

— Noam Chomsky

In terms of economical aspects, reinforcing those national parks with sophisticated anti-poaching patrols - these poachers are beefed up like the army.…

— Veronika Varekova

Global warming may be a 'crisis,' even 'the most pressing environmental problem of our time.' ... Indeed, it may ultimately affect nearly…

— John Roberts

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection…

— George Washington

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

— Bill Gates

We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.

— Gary DeMar

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

— Oscar Wilde

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.

— Mitt Romney

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.

— Roscoe Pound

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

— Herbert Hoover

It's not government that makes business successful. It's not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people.

— Mitt Romney

71 percent of the American people think that the federal government should take no more than 20 percent of anybody's paycheck no…

— Karl Rove

The government can become so elitist and concentrate on elitist interests. To help the government, you must constantly hold its attention.

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Over the year,s the government launched more than one 'war on corruption,' and they all failed. Why? Because they all started from…

— Mohammad bin Salman

I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Nadine Gordimer came over just before she died. She didn't want to talk about books or the arts, but about the abuse…

— Justin Cartwright

“To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.”

— Isaac Asimov

The four pillars of government . . . (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure).

— Francis Bacon

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any…

— James Madison