Government Quotes · Page 265

Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.

— Alfred North Whitehead

You can't leave the fight against terrorism to the government because it affects us as well.

— Soha Ali Khan

“Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the…

— Nick Harkaway

It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people.

— Ben Linder

Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.

— Josiah Warren

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

— Rand Paul

Let's face it, the U.S. government is woefully, woefully behind in all of its policies that affect the use of technology.

— Hillary Clinton

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their…

— C. S. Lewis

When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no…

— Jonathan Swift

Government should seek more strategic approaches to developing dynamic, resilient infrastructure. Business must be more creative in offering financing solutions as partners…

— Frans van Houten

A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in…

— Thomas Jefferson

There are certain areas where foreign investors can help the local people to generate wealth, and improve their quality of life. Some…

— Wangari Maathai

Americans keep telling me they hate government. I always tell them: "Man, I've got a country for you: Go to Afghanistan; they…

— Uwe Reinhardt

Well, a special screening was set up for government officials, so they didn't have to see the experience of going to see…

— Mathieu Kassovitz

Even before winning its majority, Harper's Republican-styl e Conservative party - well to the right Canada's traditional Progressive Conservative Party - managed…

— Linda McQuaig

Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of…

— Charles B. Rangel

It is equally clear that a government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a…

— Calvin Coolidge

The millions of laws which exist for the regulation of humanity appear upon investigation to be divided into three principal categories: protection…

— Peter Kropotkin

The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal…

— Adam Smith

De-Christianizing America has been high on the progressive agenda, and, thanks to the government (especially the federal courts), it has been a…

— Joseph Sobran

It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

Even as the government dominates the headlines, private entrepreneurs are busy every day working to improve products and services that improve our…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Many people may not recognize that the development of space exploration technologies has already helped benefit Earth in many ways, especially when…

— Dylan Taylor

It's one thing to maintain that upper-income earners should pay higher tax rates because they are better able to shoulder the burden…

— David Limbaugh

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few…

— Wendell Phillips

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

— Henry David Thoreau

Unfortunately, governments do not have a philanthropic approach towards future governments.

— Gita Gopinath

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

— Ron Kind

There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.

— Ricardo Lagos

Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We have no prejudiced stand, nor are we aggressive on the Sabarimala issue. The government is duty-bound to implement the Supreme Court…

— Pinarayi Vijayan

I believe that the role of government is for the government to protect the God-given rights we have and to ensure that…

— Dan Crenshaw

We all need a government that solves our real problems and is not preoccupied with itself.

— Benny Gantz

In New York, politics is a crime scene from the very beginning. We have the most corrupt state government in the United…

— Michael Caputo

When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is…

— Baron de Montesquieu

I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.

— Eric Cantor

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate.

— Carly Fiorina

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

— Ronald Reagan

There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.

— Henry Rollins