Government Quotes · Page 290

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no…

— Barry Goldwater

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

— Ronald Reagan

Funding care in the same way we fund pensions is the right approach for the Government to take, and the fairest way…

— Damian Green

For people who invest in bitcoin, the allure is precisely that: It's not backed by a central government. So it's not manipulatable…

— Francis X. Suarez

We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money.

— Carly Fiorina

The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.

— Peter Camejo

The challenge we've got is that the Government does not have a working majority. They don't.

— Tony Burke

The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats,…

— Agnes Macphail

I want to bring the greatest people into government, because we're way behind. We don't make good deals any more. I say…

— Donald Trump

A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires…

— Thomas Paine

I am voting in the midterm elections because I believe that when people engage with their local government, it reminds those placed…

— Julien Baker

I don't think anybody has ever been able to live up to what they promised. I don't know a government that has…

— Hugh Masekela

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and this without any qualification as to their…

— St. George Tucker

The Iranian leaders describe the American government exactly the way American analysts describe the Iranian one, as an opaque, factionalized system with…

— Ali Khamenei

Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas?…

— John Updike

In local government, it's very clear to your customers - your citizens - whether or not you're delivering. Either that pothole gets…

— Pete Buttigieg

A republican form of government requires four standards: It demands a highly educated population manifesting critical thinking that participates in the affairs…

— Frosty Wooldridge

Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Bless his heart, I have respect for Mitt Romney, but I do not have respect for what he has done through this…

— Sarah Palin

It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek…

— Anonymous

protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq…

— Naomi Klein

And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

That's one of the biggest issues that we see in the question of governments right now, I think, in the Western world.…

— Edward Snowden

In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The…

— Octavius Winslow

A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an…

— Carroll Quigley

Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.

— Grover Cleveland

Donald Trump actually is a pretty big-government conservative. He doesn't see eye-to-eye with them [the Kochs] on trade.

— Jane Mayer

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I can't think of a time that the U.S. government asked us or instructed us not to report or air something.

— Jim Walton

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in…

— Edmund Burke

The Spanish government, having run completely out of money, secretly sold the Pyrenees to China, and is now separated from France only…

— Dave Barry

After 1984, no ruling party in the State has won to form the government the second time.

— J. Jayalalithaa

Let all those in government be warned: They cannot order people to pay for the murder of babies, and betray God Himself,…

— Randall Terry

As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.

— Charlie Chaplin

In a vast and diverse country like India, a political party with secular ideology can ensure stable and progressive government.

— Zeenat Aman

Once the federal government has control of your health care, that means they can dictate your behavior.

— Rush Limbaugh

I am someone who really would like to see more women in government, but Palin makes me cringe every time I hear…

— Naomi Alderman

I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.

— Howard Stern

You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything…

— Russell Chatham

Do Americans want the government to micromanage every aspect of our lives? President Ronald Reagan certainly didn't.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle