Government Quotes · Page 299

I understand why foreign government contributions to the Clinton Foundation could raise ethical issues should Hillary run for president.

— Bob Beckel

While many governments and well-meaning individuals have redefined marriage, the Lord has not.

— Neil L. Andersen

I created jobs. Russ Feingold, during that same approximate 30 years, what did he do? He built government. He built it larger…

— Ron Johnson

Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

— Jared Polis

My job as Taoiseach, and the job of any government, of course, is to represent all people.

— Leo Varadkar

One of the reasons that fascism ascended to power so quickly was that it was considered socially elegant to support this new…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

— Muhammad Ali

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments…

— John Perry Barlow

The task of tracking deaths for the federal bureaucracy is an enormous one; about 2.5 million Americans die each year. Federal officials…

— David Fahrenthold

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further…

— Paul Ryan

Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions…

— Ben Shapiro

The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of…

— Gene Sharp

Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not.…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments…

— Frederick W. Smith

Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary…

— Thomas Sowell

It's not about whether we should have a conservative or a liberal. It's about, do we have someone that has the mental…

— Dave Rubin

A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must…

— Calvin Coolidge

The Afghan - obviously the parties will decide which course of action. The most important there, get a government that is seen…

— Rahm Emanuel

Although a government study found that men's health was much worse than women's health or the health of any minority group, headlines…

— Warren Farrell

Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people – mothers, children, babies, civilians – lost their lives as…

— Chinua Achebe

Democrats (I think to myself) are liberals who believe the people are basically good, but that they need government help to organize…

— Andy Rooney

Do you call the people in Los Angeles in the nineties - do you call them rebels or opposition ? They are…

— Bashar al-Assad

The child says, "Well geesh, the institutions that I'm supposed to respect - the church and the government - they're telling me…

— Harold Ramis

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow…

— Clarence Darrow

“He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord.”

— Zhuangzi

An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.

— Thomas Jefferson

In our democracy we must have a partnership of labor, of business and of government.

— Charles H. Percy

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the…

— George Bancroft

I've been working with every single government since June 1992 to try to get climate action.

— Elizabeth May

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.

— Jared Diamond

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

— Timothy M. Dolan

The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's…

— Joseph Sobran

The best government is the one that charges you the least blackmail for leaving you alone.

— Thomas Rudman-Brown

From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.

— Stephane Hessel

The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it…

— George Davis Herron

We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.

— Herbert Hoover

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

— Barbara Kingsolver

No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.

— Rusty Schweickart

I'm not a critic, I'm a journalist. I'm doing my job holding the government to account.

— Maria Ressa

My District is all too familiar with federal government attempts to seize control of private property and private water rights.

— Lauren Boebert