Government Quotes · Page 278

During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training…

— Anatoly Chubais

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

— Rand Paul

The nature of business and government has been to build a surplus and self-perpetuate, but the Internet fosters and rewards smaller, more…

— Esther Dyson

I have seen a man charged with revolutionizing incredibly complex government information technology systems who did not know how to use a…

— Ben Domenech

I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government.

— Barack Obama

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

— Robert Orben

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.

— Hjalmar Schacht

“And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it...”

— Terry Pratchett

Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his…

— Thomas Paine

“Let me give you some advice: never work for the government. Because when you work for the government, you work for the…

— John Green

People shouldn't be forced to chose between paying for rent or paying for medication. They deserve a government ready to take on…

— Jagmeet Singh

Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of…

— Beverly LaHaye

For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon…

— Anonymous

Hurricane [Katrina] hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed much of the Gulf Coast - that was an act of God ... Now…

— James Carville

The government, as a rule, discourages specialization: Military officers and diplomats are constantly transferred from one post to another, from one region…

— Keith Gessen

Democrats have always wanted to grow government with revenues from our society's producers. They aren't sincere about reducing the deficit, because they…

— David Limbaugh

“New rules—we needed new rules. No one opens the main doors but me. No one leaves the property without me. No one…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

Being satisfied to drink the dregs from the cup of human progress will not demonstrate our fitness as a people to exist…

— Marcus Garvey

Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they…

— James Cook

The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly…

— Patrick Henry

as a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government.…

— Carl Hiaasen

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for…

— Alexander Hamilton

The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots…

— James Abourezk

Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through.

— Luis Fortuno

“If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.”

— Kamila Shamsie

Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.

— Lee Child

Those who share the same values with you are your darlings, not those who share the same blood with you.

— Ilkin Santak

Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let…

— William J. Clinton

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

— Billy Graham

Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic…

— Koichiro Matsuura

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

— James Bovard

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

— William Weld

Not from my point of view…[Clinton] want[s] to move toward mandated government medicine, socialized medicine.

— Rudy Giuliani

“As a business owner don't think your limitations, think business; it's all about business.”

— Vernita Naylor

I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people…

— Christopher Gadsden

A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding…

— Paul Craig Roberts

A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was…

— James Bovard

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

— Abraham Lincoln