Government Quotes · Page 270

I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don't know about--and probably never will unless the Air…

— Barry Goldwater

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

— P. J. O'Rourke

We live in a country whose government and many of its people support white supremacy and disintegration of basic human rights.

— Brett Gelman

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level,…

— Theresa May

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

— Grover Cleveland

The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and…

— Charles Lindbergh

I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

— Laurent Fabius

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper…

— Anonymous

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote…

— Orson Pratt

We need the government to force the banks to write down all their bad assets now and then recapitalize themselves, preferably with…

— Steve Eisman

The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government…

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

In my view, Reform and Opening Up began with the abandonment of the 'using class struggle as guiding principle' government policy of…

— Liu Xiaobo

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform,…

— Scott Walker

It's not easy to get human beings into orbit. So far only three nations have been able to do that, with all…

— Buzz Aldrin

Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming,…

— Bertrand Russell

There are big questions about the sort of skills you need in modern government today. You put politicians in charge of billions…

— Tony Blair

The idea of protest organizing, as summarized by community organizer Saul Alinsky, is that if we put enough pressure on the government,…

— Grace Lee Boggs

It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can…

— Laurence Tribe

The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the…

— Michael Tanner

The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably…

— James Madison

If we do what Allah (God) has asked us to do - to unite on the basis of truth, to reform our…

— Louis Farrakhan

Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities…

— E.C. Riegel

Global warming is not a threat. But environmentalism's response to it is…Even if global warming is a fact, the free citizens of…

— George Reisman

“Government is never the solution, but it is almost always a problem. I'm a capitalist. And I believe in effort and progress…

— Pierce Brown

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

— James Madison

When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

— Laozi

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese…

— Todd Akin

We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.

— Charles Baudelaire

When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.

— Ronald Reagan

Really, the one thing that actually works - you know, state-run communism may not be your cup of tea, but [China's] government…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.

— Irvine Welsh

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well:…

— Darrell Issa

The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not…

— Abraham Lincoln

Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification…

— Martin McGuinness

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name.

— Bruno Mars

A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

— Tony Blair

The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

— Rand Paul

I ran... I didn't trust the government. I was really afraid. I believe now that that was the fatal mistake of my…

— Susan Rosenberg

While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make…

— Janet Yellen