Government Quotes · Page 286

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't hate the Chinese. We're brothers, and we share a border. I just hate the government, politicians, policies, not the people.

— Lee Hyeon-seo

If you want to curry favor with a politician, give him credit for something someone else did.

— James Abourezk

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

— James Madison

There's massive government initiatives going around the world, and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.

— Anne Wojcicki

Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic…

— Jimmy Carter

Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.

— Harry S. Truman

Our government should be supporting progress and new technology, especially in health care.

— Dean Phillips

It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude…

— Henry David Thoreau

In France, it is television that pays for films to be made and I received all of my funding from TV: two…

— Emmanuelle Bercot

The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is…

— Henry David Thoreau

Mexico's government has made a strong commitment to boosting the country's competitiveness in global trade, and the Ministry of Economy recognizes that…

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

Both sides of the political spectrum must one day realize that limitless government intrusion in the economy, in our personal lives, and…

— Ron Paul

A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be…

— Jeff Cooper

The policy of America to deny visas to technically trained people in the U.S. and shipped to other countries, where they create…

— Eric Schmidt

The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed;…

— H. L. Mencken

There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from…

— Daniel Webster

News about the Russia connections to the [Donald Trump] administration and what we are continuing to learn about those connections. What's getting…

— Rachel Maddow

The warlords took part in atrocities during the civil war in Afghanistan. They looted, they raped, they killed. They have become incredibly…

— Khaled Hosseini

I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back…

— David Boies

In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has…

— Heinrich Harrer

California, like anywhere else on Earth, should have the right to secede whether the United States likes it or not. The preferences…

— David Swanson

The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending…

— Lysander Spooner

I think it's a typical hidden agenda of the Liberal party... They had the courts do it for them, they put the…

— Stephen Harper

Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in…

— Jonah Goldberg

I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

— Zubin Mehta

The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.

— John Quincy Adams

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

— Thomas Carlyle

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most…

— Madeleine Albright

We stand with the government and people of Afghanistan in their quest for peace, stability and prosperity.

— Ram Nath Kovind

Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people's online activity.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and…

— Aristotle

Frankly our government has no idea what they're doing on many, many fronts, folks.

— Donald Trump

You don't want the second-most powerful government on Earth mad at you, if you can avoid it.

— Daryl Morey

No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

And that's how I wrote to NICAP, but then later, just very soon after that, like three weeks later, we started getting…

— Betty Hill

They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services…

— Connie Mulder

Here in the U.K., our government is committed to building a society that works for everyone - not just a privileged few.…

— Priti Patel

It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

— John Rawls

Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including…

— Mohamed ElBaradei