Government Quotes · Page 303

I would hate for anybody not to abide by alert warnings coming from government systems.

— Kirstjen Nielsen

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government,…

— Rand Paul

“Government workers are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.”

— Steven Magee

Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

— Al Sharpton

The demand of our people in 1980 is not for smaller government or bigger government but for better government.

— Edward Kennedy

City government is the level closest to the people, so our charge uniquely embodies the big and the small.

— Michelle Wu

Donald Trump may undermine some of the traditional checks on the presidency: the press in particular, but also the various government and…

— Anne Applebaum

The entire Nation has joined hands to make the dream of a Digital India into a reality. Youngsters are enthusiastic, industry is…

— Narendra Modi

In time of peace there can, at all events, be no justification for the creation of a permanent debt by the Federal…

— Martin Van Buren

I don't trust this [american] government to be regulating corporations. I trust big business to be regulated [by itself] and to be…

— Ezra Klein

All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the…

— Robert E. Lee

The government is committed towards helping the poor and neo- middle class with the success mantra of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas. It…

— Narendra Modi

We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by…

— Peter Breggin

It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives…

— Molly Ivins

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing…

— Edmund Burke

When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a break requires - now or down the line…

— Warren Buffett

The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds…

— Machado de Assis

I believe I have demonstrated that the voters are characteristically ill-informed when voting on reducing social costs. Furthermore, their primary concern is…

— Gordon Tullock

“Pesa itolewe kwa masharti au bila masharti chukua, kwani huyo aliyeitoa si yake. Benki, kwa mfano, ikitaka kukupa mkopo itakuwa na masharti…

— Enock Maregesi

“No government ought to be without censors: and where the press is free, no one ever will. If virtuous, it need not…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Fed cannot reduce inequality on its own; far from it. This requires a concerted effort by the government, broadly speaking, to…

— Gerald Epstein

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

— Milton Friedman

Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and…

— Roger Williams

The Federal Government is the people and the budget is a reflection of their need.

— John F. Kennedy

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.

— John Lewis

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

— Kamisese Mara

In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight.

— Woodrow Wilson

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter

— Thomas Jefferson

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of…

— Steve Forbes

I think it's a scary thing for a lot of people to think of the government not being involved in their lives,…

— Rush Limbaugh

I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary…

— Ferdinand Marcos

Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.

— Nigel Calder

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

— George Deukmejian

Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.

— Noam Chomsky

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

— Samuel Smiles