Government Quotes · Page 300

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to…

— Thomas Jefferson

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.

— Lou Barletta

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

— Thomas Jefferson

Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of…

— Carlos Beruff

Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.

— Reince Priebus

What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.

— Rose Wilder Lane

There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we…

— Gloria Steinem

“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the…

— Albert Einstein

It's created a very real chilling effect among our sources. They've become nervous about talking with us. They don't want their phone…

— Gary Pruitt

The government adoption of AI will not bring about a government being run by robots. Instead, our government will continue to be…

— Will Hurd

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate…

— John Quincy Adams

When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government,…

— Wendell Berry

WikiLeaks released new Clinton campaign e-mails revealing how friendly Hillary [Clinton] was with the attorney general, Loretta Lynch.This was only months prior…

— Donald Trump

The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human…

— John Quincy Adams

As a former entrepreneur who left Main Street to help President Trump drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, I'm proud to…

— Mike Braun

I kind of grew up with a mix of two things. One was kind of this individual work ethic that my father…

— Kyrsten Sinema

The Republican majority, left to its own devices from 1995 to 2000, was a party committed to limited government and restoring the…

— Mike Pence

But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil…

— Humphry Davy

Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer to call it government…

— Brad Wenstrup

Big money tries to purchase its own agenda. Money does too much talking in Washington. Every senator, every representative, even the president…

— Patricia Schroeder

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness,…

— Bible

The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without…

— Tony Benn

So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their…

— Lucy Parsons

We must not allow the federal government to set a precedence of pushing parents out from having a say in their children's…

— Mark Robinson

“To care deeply about a State that does not care about you is a tragedy. A tragedy I have come to embrace.”

— Malebo Sephodi

Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.

— John Pugsley

I'm on a mission to restore trust in our government and to build a system that works for the people.

— Dean Phillips

The government's the one thing that's not supposed to grow. The U.S. economy is supposed to grow. The two things can't really…

— Rush Limbaugh

It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it…

— Tim Pawlenty

“The challenge has always been that "good people" don't know how to win elections”

— Fela Durotoye

Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of…

— Benazir Bhutto

The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because…

— Anthony Burgess

I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man.

— Samuel Adams

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

— Benazir Bhutto

Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.

— Charles A. Beard

Country has to stop giving electricity for free. It is like giving people cocaine.

— Farooq Abdullah

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

It is getting harder and harder to support the government in the style to which it has become accustomed.

— Anonymous

We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do…

— Gavin Newsom