Government Quotes · Page 280

“When there’s a vacuum of public input, lobbyists usually fill it. But when there’s public input, the people usually win.”

— Morgan Carroll

This country has not been made by politicians, kings or governments. It has been made by farmers, labourers, our mothers and sisters…

— Narendra Modi

Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is…

— Henry Steele Commager

President Hindenburg had ultimate say over whether the government would survive or not.

— Erik Larson

There is nothing patriotic about hating your country or pretending that you can love your country but despise your government.

— Bill Clinton

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

— G. Edward Griffin

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences

— Eric Schmidt

[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.

— Nick Clegg

We can decide to kneel to the mob and kneel to the state, cede all of our power over to the federal…

— Madison Cawthorn

The government can't, after seven or eight years, say that the policy we had eight years ago is going to be the…

— Nick Boles

Courage--judgment--integrity--dedication--these are the historic qualities of the Bay Colony and the Bay State…And these are the qualities which, with God's help, this…

— John F. Kennedy

Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to destroy our credit and derange the whole…

— John C. Calhoun

[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become…

— Theodore J. Forstmann

The extremely low respect Congress enjoys among the population indicates that the citizens understand broadly what's going on. But the lack of…

— Thomas Pogge

Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of…

— Jeremy Clarkson

We should relocate federal agencies throughout the United States, to provide an economic boost to the surrounding areas and make them feel…

— Andrew Yang

It is true that I voted against the National Defense Authorization Act, because when I campaigned in Texas I told voters in…

— Ted Cruz

It is a law of nature that everything run by the government will get more expensive and worse over time. Everything run…

— Ann Coulter

So there are two separate tracks. One track is for the Syrian government and the opposition that is interested in a peaceful…

— Mohammad Javad Zarif

“…Catholicism is like Howard Johnson, and what they have are these franchises and they give all these people different franchises in the…

— Lenny Bruce

There is onslaught is the accelerating momentum of technologies and instrumental mentalities that are exterminating spontaneity, undermining love and common decency. It's…

— Stephanie Mills

Hillary Clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency. To cover up her corrupt dealings, Hillary illegally stashed…

— Donald Trump

I think we knew that this would be just like raising the kids together, this would be a fun thing to do…

— Bill Gates

The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a…

— Alexander Hamilton

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

— John Perry Barlow

You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

— Ronald Reagan

By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That…

— Wendell Phillips

When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did…

— W. S. Gilbert

“Look how many of our young are ill prepared to enter adult life today. This was designed by progressives to create government…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

I prefer to work at the policy level, on trying to fix flawed government policies.

— Henry Paulson

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

— Anonymous

“Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.”

— Anthony Liccione

All powers of government, legislative, executive and judicial, derive, under God, from the people.

— Anonymous

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is…

— Herman Cain

“Fortunately, there was government by consent of the governed in America—but just as unfortunately, such governments dearly hate to admit a mistake.”

— T. R. Fehrenbach

Time and again, it has been proven that SNAP benefits are the most valuable government stimulus we can have for local economies.

— Deb Haaland

If I get elected, my government will promote a culture of acceptance and non-violence in the country.

— Ashraf Ghani

Yeah, I would not want a foreign entity to meddle in our election; you know, a government. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't…

— Brad Parscale