Government Quotes · Page 283

A good government remains a greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

— Dean Inge

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

— Bertrand Russell

People are just people; the only thing that's different is the form of government that leads them astray.

— Eddie Griffin

Demonetisation was a big flop, and its outcome was negative. The government has done nothing to get back black money.

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

An unelected opposition in Parliament cannot change the PAP. GE 2011 and the Government's response to shift to the left proved that.

— Pritam Singh

The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane.…

— Alice Waters

After I got arrested the Filipino government unshackled me. I knew first-hand how they violated my rights and I could speak about…

— Maria Ressa

The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you're not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.

— John Alejandro King

The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I'm proud that I've even had a career, but 'proud' isn't the first word I'd use. I feel lucky that I moved…

— Roisin Murphy

Our Government’s top priority remains jobs and economic growth. Today’s announcement demonstrates our commitment to ensuring the continued success of western Canadian…

— Michelle Rempel

Yes, American medicine has its pathologies, but Canada's does, too, and we need to wake up. Government controls everything here, and governments…

— Neil Macdonald

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the…

— Erich Fromm

While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be…

— Bill Shuster

The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet…

— P. J. O'Rourke

When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity.…

— Sheldon Richman

There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have…

— Anna Quindlen

In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe,…

— P.D. Ouspensky

The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested,…

— Anthony Kennedy

As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is…

— Alexander Hamilton

When I ran against George Bush Sr. in 1992, and we did very well in New Hampshire, and then we went on…

— Pat Buchanan

The mixing of government and religion can be a threat to free government, even if no one is forced to participate… When…

— Harry A. Blackmun

[A] republic . . . [is] a government, in which the property of the public, or people, and of every one of…

— John Adams

When the US government got word that I was planning to leave Russia to go to Latin America, they brought down the…

— Edward Snowden

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

— Richard Stallman

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

— Margaret Thatcher

There are a lot of things that are done in the federal government that are done because Washington did them.

— Kevin Gutzman

I think if we had eight or 12 of us in the Senate who came from my business background, you'd see a…

— Mike Braun

You can be sure that Judicial Watch is investigating and monitoring the responses of our government to the coronavirus threat.

— Tom Fitton

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas…

— Ed Buckner

A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.

— Judy LaMarsh

[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . .

— Alexander Hamilton

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

— Will Rogers

I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance…

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

If we want to move forward, not just the Government but 125 crore Indians will have to do something.

— Narendra Modi

The government is just too big, and we have to make it smaller; people are getting lost.

— Stacey Dash

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.

— Thomas Watson, Jr

Big-government liberals don't like people with a sense of independence because independent people don't need big government.

— Neal Boortz

Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.

— Tony Abbott