Government Quotes · Page 309

Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate.

— Andre Carson

War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Its not a bigger government we need, but a smarter government that sets priorities and invests in...growth.

— Barack Obama

When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.

— Jamie Dimon

No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is…

— Joe Hockey

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

— James Madison

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they…

— Hugo Black

[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that…

— Barack Obama

If the federal government is so concerned with why people are deciding against having kids, maybe they should consider how little support…

— Ana Kasparian

A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in…

— Simon Mainwaring

The political class can't imagine a decentralized world where good things happen...without them. But in the real world, that's exactly how good…

— John Stossel

It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being…

— Bill Shuster

I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures. This was the reason why I…

— C. V. Raman

I am playing a principal who also teaches maths in a government school in 'Nil Battey Sannata,' the story of which is…

— Pankaj Tripathi

Please receive in the name of the Spanish government and the people of Spain our warmest congratulations for your election as Supreme…

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

We have to make a disciplined effort to find out what our governments are doing in these various parts of the world…

— Karen Armstrong

Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say…

— Harry Browne

I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches?…

— George Carlin

Transcendentalism is, we might say, an early form of anarchism. The Transcendentalists also did not call themselves anarchists, but there are anarchist…

— Howard Zinn

The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. They are few in number…

— Margaret Thatcher

We're not free because other people are nice, maybe other people aren't nice that day. We're free because we expect the institutions…

— David Frum

Here I close my opinion. I could not say less in view of questions of such gravity that go down to the…

— Stephen Johnson Field

With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine,…

— Ada Lovelace

Everybody complains about pork, but members of Congress keep spending because voters do not throw them out of office for doing so.…

— Ron Paul

I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to…

— Gary Johnson

The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and…

— Adolf Hitler

“Corporate governments have set the biological environmental exposure limits far too high regarding all forms of radiation exposures.”

— Steven Magee

I believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.

— Liz Truss

I think the U.S. is falling behind. There's massive government initiatives going around the world and you see that there's a real…

— Anne Wojcicki

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent…

— Lysander Spooner

“What do you call 1,000 government employees with no mouths or legs? More efficient.”

— Jarod Kintz

Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

— Gordon Brown

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to…

— George Bernard Shaw

All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.

— James Cook

“I suppose if you have ten children one of them might go into government, which is the same as losing a child…

— Catherynne M. Valente

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

— Sheldon Richman

In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.

— James Madison

There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

— Os Guinness

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

— Jeremy Bentham

Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

— Gavin Newsom