Government Quotes · Page 3

Financial crises require governments.

— Timothy Geithner

“A tyrant has uncommon moral compass.”

— Toba Beta

How our government works... it doesn't.

— Lewis Black

States, as great engines, move slowly.

— Francis Bacon

I am against government by crony.

— Anonymous

Government screws up.

— Trish Regan

My government career is over.

— Linda Tripp

MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.

— Ambrose Bierce

The population has to be educated about how the government actually works.

— Aaron McGruder

If you like big government, move to Massachusetts.

— Joe Miller

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

— Edward Bernays

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

— John Stossel

Government needs to stay out of nearly everything.

— John Layfield

The government is worst which governs most.

— James Cook

The purpose of a just government is to prevent plunder, not facilitate it.

— Glenn Beck

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

— Christine Quinn

The government businesses, they all operate in the Tasmanian economy and as the economy strengthens the demand for services in those areas…

— Peter Gutwein

Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.

— Benjamin Graham

If we become an accomplice to criminal activities by the American government, then we are liable too.

— Clive Stafford Smith

If there is a rotten government in a democracy, the main reason for this is that there is a rotten majority over…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.

— Andrew Jackson

The government in Turkey, which represents the powerful, traditionalist mass, is very comfortable creating policies tailored only for their supporters.

— Safak Pavey

I'm glad the government has shut down. Think about it, for the first time in years it's safe to talk on the…

— Jay Leno

The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government...

— Ben Bagdikian

I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If…

— Ahmed Ben Bella

The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not…

— John Podhoretz

Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion,…

— Don Tapscott

I looked at No Child Left Behind after it was enacted and saw what happened and saw the expansion of the federal…

— Rick Santorum

The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence…

— Elliott Abrams

I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of…

— George Washington

I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't…

— Jim Wallis

We need to put people in positions of authority in government, business, law, medicine, media, sports and entertainment who are filled with…

— Myles Munroe

I do know that all of the Michigan delegation worked very hard as related to the revival of the auto industry. There…

— Fred Upton

At the moment we have a critical situation in Greece. Even as we speak, where there is an open attempt by the…

— Tariq Ali

At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need…

— John Paul Stevens

You will permit me to say, that a greater drama is now acting on this theatre than has heretofore been brought on…

— George Washington

I can only express the hope that faith in the judicial system will never be diminished, and I am sure it will…

— Lee Kuan Yew

One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian "isms" of the left commit the fallacy of…

— Jonah Goldberg

What does a political revolution look like? It means that 80 percent of the people vote in national elections, not 40 percent.…

— Bernie Sanders

[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or…

— Rudolph Rummel