Government Quotes · Page 281

As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.

— Anonymous

Welfare's just one of the problems Labour failed to tackle when they were in government.

— Grant Shapps

Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to…

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.

— Rand Paul

With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

A major part of living in a representative form of government is giving citizens the right to choose and be treated equally.

— Nina Turner

Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.

— Tony Campolo

There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude?…

— Aristotle

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the…

— Abraham Lincoln

The government would assert that individuals who are aware of serious wrongdoing in the intelligence community should bring their concerns to the…

— Edward Snowden

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles…

— Joe Baca

“Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands…

— Steven Magee

The ultimate success of this government and the stability of its institutions, its progress in all that can make a nation honored,…

— Jon Lord

There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of…

— Lord Acton

You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a…

— Meg Whitman

The Holy Scriptures...can alone secure to society order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability,…

— James McHenry

The FDA protects the big drug companies, and is subsequently rewarded, and using the government's police powers, they attack those who threaten…

— Herbert L. Ley, Jr

Ronald Reagan was an anti-government, union-busting, race baiting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, who cut rich people's taxes in half, had a incurable case…

— Bill Maher

Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The…

— Frank Chodorov

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become…

— George Washington

If you behave like a good citizen, and you upgrade and improve your property, your reward will be the government will take…

— Jesse Ventura

The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has…

— Thomas Sowell

If you run for election with a particular agenda about saving jobs, about strengthening manufacturing and farming jobs, about tackling predatory gambling…

— Nick Xenophon

I love to tell how I'm suffering because one percent we're paying 25 percent of the total. We're not paying 25 percent…

— Howard Warren Buffett

I've served in 25 nations. I've seen where people don't trust their government. We're there. In the military, the last option is…

— Ryan Zinke

I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.

— Jonathan Mayhew

Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

— Farley Mowat

The American people don't want the government telling them how to start or manage a business.

— John E. James

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.

— Carles Puigdemont

Hamirpur has a high literacy rate and most people are well-settled. It is also home to a significant number of Army men,…

— Anurag Thakur

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

— Colin Powell

I want to stop directing so many of resources to the military budget and focus them here at home. I believe government…

— Cynthia Dill

If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding.

— Stephen Colbert

Family is created to grow the Overman, not to continue the progeny; progeny is continued by the Overman anyway.

— Ilkin Santak

“President Trump is doing a great job of demonstrating that politicians routinely lie to their electorate.”

— Steven Magee

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous,…

— Woodrow Wilson

“Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open.”

— Orson Scott Card